Hi Very well put!! I think your brave to consider Linux here in a live environment . It will get better and as we all help out by using/testing/feedback, it will develop faster than cakewalk and others. Thing is will cakewalk survive? It seems there will be more consolidation in the music market and not always the best software survives. Will Sonar still be here? I think a lot of the propriety software arguments forget this. If the company is bought out, thats it, gone. It may survive in name only but normally the stuff you bought it for is changed. Just my 2p's worth bob On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:14 -0500, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > It's not a crime to use Windows based applications if you so choose. > And > it's almost saint like (?) to be enthusiastically involved in Linux > audio to help breed some stiff competition for the "Almost only game > in > town" proprietary based world.