General
22 Mar 07
26 Mar 07
Originally posted by MarinkatombThere are a plethora of soft synths you can use though I'm not sure your existing ones will work. They might do though.
What is the score with VST softsynths and the like. Are there any available? Can i use the ones i have already?? (This might be wishful thinking but i've gotta ask...) 🙂
All you need to do is go and buy yourself a professional low latency sound card. I picked an old one up from a shop for £35.00. Make sure your Linux distro of choice has a well configured "Alsa" set up which most will these days and you're good to go.
Be aware that you WILL have to tinker a bit to get your studio up and running (for example your sound card driver will probably need to be built) but if you subsequently try and avoid doing any kind of auto updates you will have a rock solid platform.
26 Mar 07
Originally posted by WheelyUnlike Windows it's for free? And it comes with lots of great software, the
The question I'd have to ask is why you moved to linux ?
If you wanted a semi-proprietry OS that can only be controlled by the GUI and that has been patched to death so the only way you can upgrade things is via the vendor why not just stick with Windows?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for expanding Linux usage but get a little frustrated at distributions ...[text shortened]... s as they can get it. I can't see why anybody would bother moving from Windows in this case.
equivalent of which you'd have to pay for in the Windows world? I don't know,
frankly I don't understand it either as windows is free for all intents and
purposes (as it comes preinstalled on all new computers) and the software
I'm talking about is often ported to windows. 😕
30 Mar 07
Have finally installed linux and am coming to you via the iceweasle browser. Have ubuntu on main and knoppix on live CD. Am about to install knoppix to dual boot because it is easy to connect to the internet via GPRS and has less verbose user documentation. am half way through downloading fedora. have also xubuntu on live CD.
the enslaving bondage of windows has been forever broken.
30 Mar 07
So which distribution of Linux should i be looking at? I am familiar with command line control of Linux (though i'd like to avoid that as much as possible). I've done some really basic shell scripting in the past but it is quite a long way in the past now. I'm looking for something that I can get up and running without spending 3 weeks reading technical manuals. I've used Red hat in the past though i expect there is something altogether newer and cooler on the market now. Any advice? 🙂
30 Mar 07
2 edits
Originally posted by MarinkatombTough question matey.
So which distribution of Linux should i be looking at? I am familiar with command line control of Linux (though i'd like to avoid that as much as possible). I've done some really basic shell scripting in the past but it is quite a long way in the past now. I'm looking for something that I can get up and running without spending 3 weeks reading technical gh i expect there is something altogether newer and cooler on the market now. Any advice? 🙂
Personally I would go for Slackware but that's mainly because it doesn't have those oh-so-tempting auto update features that are guaranteed to break something eventually. They always do and quite spectacularly at times. Also, you can use software, unpatched, from the developers without having to wait for your distro to package it AND you know exactly where all the libraries and dependencies are because you put them there yourself.
Having said that though, Slackware is a unix choice not a windows choice so if you want the good bits about Windows i.e. it does stuff without you telling it to then pretty much any of the modern disto's will do you. Please stay away from Red Hat though, please!! I don't want their god awful config and startup system gaining any more support than it already has.
EDIT: For your own use you might want to look at this one http://64studio.com/
I have never tried it but it has a funky screen shot for you at least.
30 Mar 07
1 edit
Originally posted by z00tWhatever floats your boat.
Slackware is for Linux granddaddies. For a user having zero experience it is not a good idea. Fedora Core has all the modern tools to get him working. Has Slackware heard of NSA's SELinux (National Security Agencies Security Enhanced Linux) which comes on Fedora?
EDIT: My mother runs Slackware OK.
30 Mar 07
Originally posted by MarinkatombThe first thing you have to remember is that it is all free, so you can pick and chose and it costs you nothing except your time and bandwidth.
So which distribution of Linux should i be looking at? I am familiar with command line control of Linux (though i'd like to avoid that as much as possible). I've done some really basic shell scripting in the past but it is quite a long way in the past now. I'm looking for something that I can get up and running without spending 3 weeks reading technical ...[text shortened]... gh i expect there is something altogether newer and cooler on the market now. Any advice? 🙂
Ubuntu is easy to install and knoppix is easy to use.
was online and GPRS surfing 15 minutes after putting the knoppix CD in my CD player.
was online and surfing at an internet cafe after installing ubuntu on their computer almost immediately.
really depends on what you want to do.
I'd chose knoppix to start but ubuntu is also not difficult to do simple things with.
download this link and see how you go:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
you will also need :
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso 04-Jan-2007 00:58 696M
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso.md5.asc 05-Jan-2007 03:15 305
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso.sha1.asc 05-Jan-2007 03:15 313
README 18-Aug-2005 01:52 267
knoppix-cheatcodes.txt 02-Jun-2006 20:48 9.6K
from the same page. (http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/)
30 Mar 07
the process in a nut shell.
this info below is from ubuntu but can be used with the knoppix download.
1)download all the files.
2)check the downloaded files for integrity.
more info at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM#head-a56d8b747d03427f55689e637d14ec19ee07c661
3)burner the main file to cd.
more info at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto?highlight=%28BurningIsoHowto%29
4) put the new CD in your player and reboot.
31 Mar 07
Originally posted by z00tfrom googling have learned that SELinux is the privacy invasion version of linux but searching at fedora ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ ) doesnt produce any info about this perversion. so can anyone confirm that any and all version of linux will contain this tainted spying material.
Slackware is for Linux granddaddies. For a user having zero experience it is not a good idea. Fedora Core has all the modern tools to get him working. Has Slackware heard of NSA's SELinux (National Security Agencies Security Enhanced Linux) which comes on Fedora?
knoppix is a german version, and ubuntu is a south african version, so i was assuming that they were free of the evil empires influence.
01 Apr 07
1 edit
Originally posted by rubber duckUse google properly http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ SELinux is a security-enhanced Linux system :-
from googling have learned that SELinux is the privacy invasion version of linux but searching at fedora ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ ) doesnt produce any info about this perversion. so can anyone confirm that any and all version of linux will contain this tainted spying material.
knoppix is a german version, and ubuntu is a south african version, so i was assuming that they were free of the evil empires influence.
This version of Linux has a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture incorporated into the major subsystems of the kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. This allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications.
Ubuntu is for people who cannot use Debian properly and need to be hand-held.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELinux
rubber duck don't post in the forums when under the influence of unknown substances. Seek professional help if you need it.
01 Apr 07
Originally posted by z00tE-hem, actually SELinux in the core is for people who cannot handle linux
Use google properly http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ SELinux is a security-enhanced Linux system :-
This version of Linux has a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture incorporated into the major subsystems of the kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. Th ...[text shortened]... e forums when under the influence of unknown substances. Seek professional help if you need it.
properly and need to be hand-held. 😛
Seriously, if you know what you're doing, you'll stick with something like
Slackware where you can get down and dirty if needed. Or better yet, if you
don't know much about the inner workings and wants to learn, try Linux
from scratch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
If you do that, you'll really have a good understanding about linux. 🙂