On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Bill Bennett wrote: > 1) There's a prospect of my being able to acquire CorelDraw for > Linux in the near future. > > So I looked it up. The wretched thing is described as being > configured for Debian: I use common-or-garden Redhat.
<raises eyebrows> A commercial piece of software designed for Debian, without a DeadRa^WRedHat version? Oh wait, it's Corel; they're good ol' Debian bigots from way back. > Can anyone forsee any problems with this? Possible library issues, of course, but a library is a library. Something not installed, perhaps, that should be. RedHat not being able to comprehend Debian's package format (if it's a .deb, and if RedHat hasn't got the appropriate tools - which it should have, one way or another). > 2) A friend has some software from, I think, SoundForge, > whereby he can plug in his turntable to his computer and store > an analogue file for subsequent (a) converting to digital and > (b) editing---meaning that BLOODY piano pedal squeak that > ruins any enjoyment of a certain jazz LP could be edited out. Plugging any analogue audio device into the ADC of your sound card is not dependent on operating system or application software. <g> Recording sound to .wav is accomplished by any one of N+1 possible applications under Linux. The sound editing can also be done in a variety of interesting fashions, but not being a sound geek I couldn't say (well, not that kind of one, anyway). I think he's got his terminology mixed up; it's not possible to actually store analogue data in a digital computer, instead, it has to be sampled and quantised, no matter what you're running. > (Alright, apologies for introducing coarse and unseemly language into > SLUG's driven snow. I was overcome at the prospect of a resurrection.) > > Unfortunately, the friend is a follower, if reluctantly, of Microsoft. > He couldn't tell me whether there's analogous software for Linux. It should be. Sound recording and editing isn't exactly new technology. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
