On Thursday 01 March 2007, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > Hi all, > > Oh...FWIW.... I LOVE you guys! :) > > Meanwhile, > > I would like a list of preferred apps from anyone who responds. If you > had an Audio LiveCD you could pop in your machine and boot it up, what > would you most prefer to see there? > I have sampled them all recently and while they look great, work > reasonably well and have lots of stuff in them application wise, I'm not > convinced the simplicity is as honed as it can be. > > 1. What are your top 10 critical "must have" audio apps? JACK SuperCollider Ingen (when it's finally usable - damn!!) Ardour Audacity jack-rack seq24 rosegarden LADSPA/DSSI/LV2 plugins It's only 9, but what the hell. No particular order btw.. > 2. What are your top 5 utility apps? vi sed less grep find and i have to add bash, make and python to this list, too... > 3. Considering a mid powered box, (say 1800mhz, 1 gig ram, etc) what > is your favorite WM or desktop? KDE (even on my 800mhz 384megs thinkpad), but i can wrk with prettymuch everything from ratpoison to gnome... > 4. How many people *don't* have at least a DVD read only drive that > you can boot from? I do have a DVD drive i can boot from. I dislike downloading DVD iso's though, because they are so big :). Two persons i know don't have a DVD drive (one of them doesn't have _any_ bootable media besides his hard drive though. Man that was a hassle getting the OS on there) Regards, Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org
