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Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #3 – October 2010
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Jeremy
Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #3 – October 2010
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Re: Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #3 – October 2010
Jeremy,
A heartfelt thanks for your hard work on this valuable source of info, I can barely imagine how much time it must take to research and prepare a round-up like this.
I've considered your comments regarding the 'need' for Multimedia distros and as a Distributor myself I have tried to consider your point objectively. I do wonder if there would even be things like LinuxMusicians and LinuxMAO etc. if there were no multimedia distros originally to introduce new users to the foundations of Linux platform multimedia, obviously you are an advanced Linux user with your own PPA etc. but I believe you underestimate or perhaps forget how difficult the initial transition from something like Windows is to new Linux users. Many AV Linux users are trying Linux as a Multimedia platform for the first time and want to bring their tried and true VST's, Soundfonts etc. along with them especially if they have paid for them, this is not presented as an easy or even encouraged choice in most 'Vanilla" distribution scenarios. I also find that new Linux users are looking for a new OS platform perhaps more than they are a new philosophy or marketing ethos so I believe AV Linux has a part to play as a unique introduction to ALL the choices available, not just the excellent Open-Source ones. To be clear I, like many believe the best long term strategy is to migrate over time to a purely Linux based system but everyone's workflows, timetables and abilities are different as you know.
Although I have only been present personally on LM for a relatively short time, AV Linux is far from a new 'flash in the pan' distro, it began life in 2007 with an originally Ubuntu base. I don't want to sound critical or even hypocritical but I think your observation on a lack of solidarity and team work seems to most noticeably but not exclusively affect Ubuntu right now, I'm beginning to lose count of how many multimedia PPA's have come into being with so much package duplication, meanwhile the 'official' Ubuntu Studio variant seems to have lost user confidence to a large degree.
At risk of offending anyone, I am merely stating my own opinion from the other side of the distro fence and certainly not suggesting that any of the Ubuntu based respins lack merit, quite the opposite truthfully, I merely suggest that a summing of their respective 'brain trust' would be an interesting possibility.
Anyway thanks again for providing the round-up for everyone to enjoy!
Regards -GLEN
A heartfelt thanks for your hard work on this valuable source of info, I can barely imagine how much time it must take to research and prepare a round-up like this.
I've considered your comments regarding the 'need' for Multimedia distros and as a Distributor myself I have tried to consider your point objectively. I do wonder if there would even be things like LinuxMusicians and LinuxMAO etc. if there were no multimedia distros originally to introduce new users to the foundations of Linux platform multimedia, obviously you are an advanced Linux user with your own PPA etc. but I believe you underestimate or perhaps forget how difficult the initial transition from something like Windows is to new Linux users. Many AV Linux users are trying Linux as a Multimedia platform for the first time and want to bring their tried and true VST's, Soundfonts etc. along with them especially if they have paid for them, this is not presented as an easy or even encouraged choice in most 'Vanilla" distribution scenarios. I also find that new Linux users are looking for a new OS platform perhaps more than they are a new philosophy or marketing ethos so I believe AV Linux has a part to play as a unique introduction to ALL the choices available, not just the excellent Open-Source ones. To be clear I, like many believe the best long term strategy is to migrate over time to a purely Linux based system but everyone's workflows, timetables and abilities are different as you know.
Although I have only been present personally on LM for a relatively short time, AV Linux is far from a new 'flash in the pan' distro, it began life in 2007 with an originally Ubuntu base. I don't want to sound critical or even hypocritical but I think your observation on a lack of solidarity and team work seems to most noticeably but not exclusively affect Ubuntu right now, I'm beginning to lose count of how many multimedia PPA's have come into being with so much package duplication, meanwhile the 'official' Ubuntu Studio variant seems to have lost user confidence to a large degree.
At risk of offending anyone, I am merely stating my own opinion from the other side of the distro fence and certainly not suggesting that any of the Ubuntu based respins lack merit, quite the opposite truthfully, I merely suggest that a summing of their respective 'brain trust' would be an interesting possibility.
Anyway thanks again for providing the round-up for everyone to enjoy!
Regards -GLEN