>From Ketil Thorgersen on Thursday, 2004-01-08 at 22:27:22 +0100: > torsdag 8. januar 2004, 21:30, skrev Conrad Newton: > > Very interesting! I'm a teacher in Norway as well and have thought > about starting to use linux apps in my music teaching, but have found > it to cumbersome in the present state. I think audacity is the way to > go as it is multiplatform. The pupils and teachers can easily use it > on their windows home-pc. Both Muse and rosegarden is fine, although I > personally find Muse a bit more intuitive. One of them should be > included for composing by way of notation. If there is space I'd > definately use the ear-training app. Thank you, it is very good to hear from a potential user. >From what you say, I am inclined to include audacity, muse, and solfege on the CD. I have not yet looked at muse, but I did briefly investigate rosegarden4, and immediately tripped over the use of jack. Is muse any simpler to configure, or is it about the same? > Let us know when it is released! The final version is not yet released, but if you want to be a tester, you can download one of the following CDs. ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux/knoppixes/nordiskids/NordisKids-NB-2003-12-11.iso ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux/knoppixes/snofrix/snofrix-2004-01-05.iso The name has recently been changed from NordisKids to snofrix, and snofrix is being uploaded this very minute. You could get it tomorrow morning if you have a good internet connection. The current version contains audacity and solfege, but not muse or rosegarden. The installed packages on snofrix very much resemble the set of packages listed in ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux/knoppixes/nordiskids/packages.nordiskids.detailed3 I would welcome you as a tester, since until now my correspondents have been mostly either hard core hackers, or clueless users. A music teacher is just the sort of tester I am looking for. :-)) The final release will be January 20, so I have about one more week to be really certain of what I am doing. The CD will be packaged together with skolemagasinet, so if you get that magazine, I suppose you will also receive a copy of the CD. Conrad
