Hi Alan, On resonance FM last night, myself & Jake Harries (live on air) were discussing artists use of free & open source software and Linux. (http://www.furtherfield.org/radio/160311-jake-harries-felicie-destienne-dorves)
This is also a good time to mention that we played one of your tracks last night - 'Violin Plucked and Bowed' & Sara Ayes's track 'What is the Past but a Dream of the Future', from the Furthernoise.org compilation 'Explorations in Sound, Vol.4 The Sound of Live Performance'. My first experience with Linux was in the early nineties, with Red Hat. But of course, have used most of the linux based OS's now. Have been playing with pure:dyne a lot, also when it was dynobolic in its earlier state. I always approach Linux as an amateur learning new things. When using Microsoft or mac, I feel like I am a customer to some extent. On my old dusty laptop I have pure:dyne & Fedora, on my cuter smaller laptop (eee PC netbook) I have Ubuntu but considering a partition and adding another operating system. Strangely perhaps, because Ubuntu for me now seems too perfect (I know)... wishing you well. marc > I've been using Linux (along with Windows) for about 15 years now, and > Ubuntu is certainly and the easiest and top-down most flexible distro I've > used. I do find Jack difficult to set up, and Audacity is still, for me, > problematic; a lot of the effects have unlabeled parameters, and, at least > on my machines, things like simple reverb resonance become difficult. And > video is still extremely difficult to edit; if it wasn't, I'd switch off > Windows completely. The advantage of Windows is cheapness and the variety > of programs available - these are really useful for text modification, > among other things. Linux runs incredibly lean; I'm working now on an old > notebook with 2 gigs of ram, slow processor, and 40 gig harddrive, and it > runs Second Life fine (with Ubuntu 10+). I also have Linux on two old Asus > 701 eee PC netbooks (this was the first netbook model); the Asus native > Linux works really well (a form of Debian), and Ubuntu Linux runs, but a > bit slower. I'd definitely recommend anyone working in music or text or > mathematics/science to try Ubuntu or another flavor on an older machine at > the least; the results might amaze you. > > - Alan > > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, marc garrett wrote: > >> Here?s a switcher story of a different color: from the Mac, to Linux. >> It?s one thing to talk about operating systems and free software in >> theory, or to hear from died-in-the-wool advocates of their platform of >> choice. In this case, we turn to Kim Cascone, an experienced and gifted >> musician and composer with an impressive resume of releases and a rich >> sens of sound. This isn?t someone advocating any platform over another: >> it?s an on-the-ground, in-the-trenches, real-world example of how Kim >> made this set of tools work in his music, in the studio and on tour. A >> particular thanks, as he?s given me some new ideas for how to work with >> Audacity and Baudline. Kim puts his current setup in the context of >> decades of computer work. Even if you?re not ready to leave Mac (or >> Windows) just yet, Kim?s workflow here could help if you?re looking to >> make a Linux netbook or laptop more productive in your existing rig. >> >> http://tinyurl.com/5rwvn6g >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qx.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
