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On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:36, Chris White wrote: |
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> All, |
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> Hi, it's your favorite cashew dev Chris. It's come to my attention that |
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> media-sound is FREAKING HUGE (like this email)! I've found that when |
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> people ask me "Hey Chris! What's a good mp3 alternative to xmms!", I |
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> often find myself saying "Let me browse a couple thousand packages to |
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> give you a good idea!". Yah right! Like I have time for that! Here's a |
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> nice plan I spat out (this was done awhile ago, so it might be missing a |
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> couple of packages :P). This includes categories and packages. |
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> That's all, now go ahead and comment / whatever. However, if you say "I |
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> think it's a good idea to not organize those 20 billion packages in |
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> media-sound", I'll probably slap you with a wet flounder, close my ears |
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> and say "hear no evil"! Peace :P. |
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1. Re-organizing "media-sound" is an *excellent* idea! One of my |
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principal reasons for getting into Linux in the first place was for |
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audio work. "media-sound" is a jungle at present. |
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2. I would divide it along these lines: |
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a. Core tools -- things like alsa, jack-audio-connection-kit, mixers, |
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timidity, sox, etc. -- stuff *everyone* needs |
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b. Synthesis and Digital Signal Processing -- all the synthesizers, |
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wave editors, etc. |
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c. Media players, radio, CDs, encoders, streamers, etc. |
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d. Music processing: rosegarden, lilypond, common music, jMax, |
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puredata, etc. -- high-level tools for music and algorithmic |
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composition. And I would add some packages to this category: csound, |
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cecilia, Common Lisp Music, Common Music Notation, Athena and sfront. If |
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the licensing works, OpenMusic should be in here too. |
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The "gold standard" for Linux studio musicians is the Debian-based |
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Agnula distro. Their "social contract" is perhaps a tad more restrictive |
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than Gentoo's, since they are based in Europe, but they have or are |
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working on just about everything I need as a studio musician/algorithmic |
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composer. |
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