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Curtis Sloan wrote: > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 15:48, Gustin Johnson wrote: >>> (http://www.music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user). >>> >> It is why I have Sieve rules to sort my mail before I ever see it >> :) > > Is that this? http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve Yes, or here: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/sieve/ It has long since replaced my procmail recipes, the kicker was that horde has native support for sieve. >>>> For media production, there is a bit of work that you need to >>>> do to get *any* mainstream distro to work properly (this is >>>> true of Windows too, since I need to do a fair bit of hacking >>>> in the registry to get it to become a reasonable DAW). >>>> >>>> You may want to look at DeMuDi or Planet CCRMA (DeMuDi is a >>>> plain Debian install that is pre-customized for audio >>>> production) if you are planning to do a lot of this sort of >>>> thing. >>> Or AudioSlack (http://audioslack.com)! Oh wait you said >>> mainstream. It's old school mainstream, isn't it? ;-) >> It is still a specially maintained distro. Out of the box >> Slackware is no better or worse than the other Mainstream distos >> (assuming one would even classify slackware as mainstream). >> Audioslack does much the same thing as Planet CCRMA whichmakes an >> RH install into a DAW, audioslack does the same thing. >> >> I used to use audioslack but it seemed to stop being maintained. > > It just came back a couple weeks ago. I don't believe Luke is > maintaining it anymore, though. I installed the packages today, so > we'll have to see how it goes (no custom kernel, yet -- guess I'll > have to do that part myself). The kernel is the key part of a Linux DAW, and the main weakness in a Windows DAW. Of course a full blown DAW is probably overkill for the podcasting crowd, but I am not a happy Audacity user so I will always plug the alternatives. > All in all, it's easy as easy to install a Linux-based media > workstation as manually adding packages as per your distro's method. > But there is a learning curve behind the software that you install. > Especially things like getting good realtime performance using JACK > and using Ardour effectively. But the ability to capture Skype > streams in Linux using other software is definitely available > (classic lame attempt at bring the thread back to the original > subject). Demudi and 64studio are better for an out of the box experience. Plus you can leverage their respective communities instead of relying entirely on your own time. Hmmm, I can't really even bring this back OT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkJUlwRXgH3rKGfMRAownAJ47Po9/TwyrI3Ae4du4HoGk88ft5ACdENmq CSs01OzKnwV8c6kX3V/LSDg= =3BwK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
