At 8:56 +0100 9/5/07, James Stone wrote:
It's amazing how a flashy GUI can make people forget their Free principles.
I've been a Linux fanboix since the days of the minix-list posting, a Mac dilettante since the release of the tiBook, and a slashdot nerd since Chips&Dips, and all I can say about this is that if you don't like the site, either contribute to it in a way that brings about change, or don't bother reading it .. this is how it goes.
That said, every time there is a Linux music thread on slashdot, and there have been quite a few over the years, I eagerly digest everything offered .. and it seems to me that there has been nothing but positive, good news to be gleaned through all the baiting and badgering going on from both Windows-fanatic and Apple-fanatic camps, eager to get in there and dig their own holes around just how great Linux is for music-making, while some of us just quietly install, setup, config and use, use, use ...
I've a multi-platform discipline in my music-making studio - a nice Linux laptop with all the latest (Ardor, Jack, Bristol, rosegarden etc.) that runs extremely stable and is very well behaved for most of my jam sessions, paired to a Presonus FirePod, and as well a Powerbook running all the latest Mac-ware too, and in a pinch, if I needed it, I could boot to WinXP and Sonar and try that out as well .. but since I'm primarily a hardware-using musician with a room literally full of synths, and prefer to stay out of the virtual noise world, I don't have any glitches with either platforms that preclude me making music - they all Just Plain Work. And that goes for Linux, 100%. Its a rock solid DAW for me, and I'm very proud of the progress thats been made by the Linux audio software community over the last decade .. its definitely a winning team, in my opinion, especially in light of the dismal scene of music software, in general (very, very slow progress towards new paradigms that would make more sense than your average Tracker..)
So maybe we shouldn't get too upset by a few snipey types on /., yo .. its clear the progress is superlative on the Linux audio front, and there is a lot of hope for more and more interesting ideas which implement Linux-style tools and techniques, on the horizon, yet .. which may also break a few rules along the way as well.
I, for one, welcome our non-Pro Tool using performance-based Linux Music overlords ..
-- ; Jay Vaughan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
