LinuxMusicians

So I've been trying to figure out what college I want to go to study music. I'm trying to find a school that's hip and postmodern. A school that might host a string quartet, an electronic music outfit, a hip hop group, and a Brazilian orchestra all in the same event; no explanations, no apologies. T...

I just loaded it onto a cd. I love the look of it, and I love the simplicity of the design. After my hair-pulling experience with Ubuntu Studio, dyne:bolic sounds really refreshing to me... I just wish I could get the mouse to work! I'm trying to run it on an Intel-based MacBook. I try to move eithe...

I'm sick of iPods. I'm especially sick of whatever weird thing Jobs built in to make it so difficult for (non-iTunes) software to access these devices. It occus to me, why haven't I heard of portable media players designed to run open source operating systems? I looked it up online, and so far I've ...

I try to start Jack off the A/V Linux Live Cd and I get: ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode cannot load driver module alsa What is the PCM device? Does this have to do with why sound isn't coming through my headphones? Ubuntu doesn't recognize the h...

Ahhh it's not stable yet. That makes sense.

I'm downloading A/V Linux now. Cross your fingers.

Ubuntu Studio looks so pretty, but seems rather impractical.

Thanks for the welcome! I may be spending many hours here.

I'm using Mepis, a Debian-based distro, and I can't find Ardour in the package manager. I'm checking all the stable repositories (Mepis, Debian, and Debian-multimedia), but nothing's coming up. I was sure that Ardour was available for Debian. Why isn't it turning up? I'd sooner headbutt a reel-to-re...