Hugh Lovette wrote: > I'm new to this distro, and am setting up a box for a friend, not > myself (though I'll be supporting this non-linux person). I have been > bothered by the poor forum system when there are so many decent forum > apps out there to choose from. No proper searching makes it barely > useful and that really does impact the usability of the distro. I've > seen a lot of unanswered posts - there must be more people using this! > Then again, it looks like linuxmusicians.com forum has more activity > in general. Either a link to that forum should be added to the distro > website or this forum should be fixed. > > Otherwise I'm thrilled to find the distro - wish it had existed back > in the 80s when I was using 8track real-to-real tascams. I remember > reading about peter gabriel producing albums on computer and looked > into what it would take... the largest HDD I could afford at the time > was 80MB, not GB! We have a lot to be happy about here. >
The 64 Studio Community is amazing tolerant, something that is seldom for Linux communities :). I don't know linuxmusicians.com, but I do know some German Linux forums and there's no tolerance and especially real-time audio is a PITA at those forums. Anyway, I agree that there's the need to breath new life into the 64 Studio forums and users mailing list. Btw. it seems to be, that you and I have a similar history regarding to music and computers. I've got a 40MB (in words "forty mega bytes") SCSI hard disk with a LACOM controller for my Atari ST :D. There's something unbelievable, this Seablade HD sometimes needs several starts before it's fine, but it's still fine, while a lot of modern hard disks I had are junk within 2 or 3 years. For my C64 I never had a hard disk ;) and I used it for producing music without SMPTE, just with an interface that produced a click for sync, without any position code. Please report if your friend is fine with 64 Studio. AND ask him to join this mailing list :). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
