Posts Tagged ‘FOSS’

Countdown To Fedora 9

s the great powers that be at wordpress don’t allow scripts to be executed in wordpress.com hosted blogs, I can’t show the nifty Fedora 9 counter. I could upload a new image every day, but that’s probably not going to happen .
Having spent a few days working with the current rawhide snapshot, Fedora [...]

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How Wine Ruined My Life (And CD Rips)

Apparently Wine is nearing that so elusive 1.0 release, which really annoys me considering my recent Wine experiences.
Wherever possible, I try to use a native Linux application, and even in the specialised field of pro audio, this is often possible. I use Ardour as my main DAW, Rosegarden for MIDI sequencing and JAMin for mastering. [...]

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April Fools: We Have A Winner

This year’s April fools offerings have been pretty tame, but I think Linux Journal have outdone themselves.
Numerous articles and a video – that’s commitment to the cause

Go Purple For Pentium Pro!
Operating Systems Programmers Flock To BeOS
BeOS Cluster Goes Live
Sony Rumored To Buy BeOS
NYC Subways Embed BeOS
Bloggers Are Bonkers For BeOS

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Ardour Does Audio Units

I hate to tease people when we haven’t released the OS X native version yet, but I sometimes get so tired of people complaining about Ardour not supporting real plugins that I thought this screenshot might be interesting. OS X users – we promise to get this functionality into your hands just as soon as [...]

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