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offline thethirdball from Polly Pisspot (Canada) on 2002-04-08 18:30 [#00162733]
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I guess the title pretty much says it all. Has anyone out
there experimented with da shit available for Linux? If
so... what do you think? What are your favourite apps? If
not, then why not?

Most apps have been collected at:
http://www.linuxsound.at/

 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-08 18:38 [#00162747]
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You are wasting your time with that two bit operating
system, my friend!!

*flys the Microsoft flag high*

 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-04-08 18:41 [#00162752]
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I would rather use an opperating system that takes up two
bits than one that requires 124g of ram in order to run.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-04-08 18:42 [#00162754]
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I heard Linux is really good from many experienced users.
For what programs you can't run in Linux you can run them in
windows emulators.


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-08 18:47 [#00162756]
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But when you have that much ram - why settle for anything
less?

;)

 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-04-08 18:49 [#00162758]
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Well I guess. I just figured some people might want to do
something other than run their opperating system with their
computers. Say, using the internet, writing music, playing
with wordpad. Stuff like that.

;P

 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2002-04-08 18:52 [#00162761]
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Mac OSX is quite good for audio too.


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-08 18:57 [#00162774]
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Nice one!
But you can rest assured that everything I need to run on my
computer runs just fine! I appreciate what you're saying,
people how are running on borderline specs will find it
difficult to run stuff. I think Microsoft minimum spec is
the minimum to actually run the OS, without considering the
software!


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-08 19:03 [#00162786]
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...but thats about it though!

;)

 

offline tunemx from Budapest (Hungary) on 2002-04-08 19:04 [#00162788]
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Microsoft is just generating more memory hungry
applications. More disk space.

Consider how fast a modern CPU is... Why is Windows still so
slow sometimes? Let me know the answer.

To speak some word on the topic (which makes a messageboard
against a webchat), I am using Linuux for almost every
reason. When I install it, I have everything.
I have xmms to play mp3, xine to play movies, i
have my favorite word processor (OpenOffice, or emacs), a
very sophisticated browser (Mozilla), etc.

Sometimes I prefer playing mp3 from the commandline, I can
do that too. (mpg123)

And all for free against damn shareware, and time evaluated
software.



 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-08 19:07 [#00162794]
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Windows isn't slow on my mega fast PC!

*Go Microsoft - yeah!!!*

 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-04-08 19:07 [#00162796]
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Hey, there are about 15 million other messageboards where
they debate PC v Mac, can we keep to the topic? I know that
can be sooo hard sometimes.


 

offline thethirdball from Polly Pisspot (Canada) on 2002-04-08 19:08 [#00162798]
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"But when you have that much ram - why settle for anything
less?" - Jedi Chris

I understand your point but I'm a bit of a hobbyist and
enjoy trying out new things and seeing what they have to
offer.

If I was only interested in churning out music, then
Windows/Mac is really the only way to go. But I like the
Linux community and there's some really interesting stuff
going on.

I guess I was wondering if anyone else out there had a
similar curiousity?



 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-04-08 19:12 [#00162804]
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Fair point!

Inverted Whale: Chill out!

 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-04-08 19:17 [#00162809]
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Like I said, I heard you can get emulators for any programs
you can't run in Linux. Altho the guy that I got that from
wasn't a musically inclinded computer nerd, just a computer
nerd.


 

offline tunemx from Budapest (Hungary) on 2002-04-08 19:21 [#00162815]
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VMWare is for emulating... Though I don't prefer
running Windows apps in Linux. Wasn't the purpose to change
to Linux is to get rid of Windows?
More and more apps is there to replace the damn Windows
monster.


 

offline tunemx from Budapest (Hungary) on 2002-04-08 19:28 [#00162824]
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Audacity for Linux...

 

offline thethirdball from Polly Pisspot (Canada) on 2002-04-08 19:57 [#00162854]
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Thanks Taxidermist but I have to agree with tunemx on this
one.

If I wanted to run Windows software then I'll just boot
Windows.

For example, SND is a pretty wicked wave editor which cannot
be run on Windows.

For those interested:
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/05/snd_part
one.html



 

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