Re: debian-user: Firewire?
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:10:58PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net> wrote:
...
> >Try it sometime. :)
> >
> >
> >Kenward
>
> I find it all interesting, and I would like to, but my major is
> composition, and I deal with lots of deadlines as a musician and
> student. It's a fine line, how far I can go learning something so
> specialized, when I run both XP and OSX, in either of which I can turn
> out a good track in minimal time, spending most of my time writing the
> music. I've spend most of the last 2 days installing, learning,
> reinstalling Linux, googling every possible combination of letters
> from a QWERTY keyboard.
> I am drawn towards stuff like this, and I have the mind for it, but
> it's not what I'm "here for", it's a means to an end. I do note that
> you, and someone on the Pure Data list, mention both 2.6.15 and
> 2.6.16, and the latest stable AGNULA release uses 2.6.12; if this
> change is necessary, then I can justify it. But it's easy for me to
> get caught up in this stuff and forget that I'm supposed to be
> composing over summer and preparing for a senior recital.
Gotcha. I have similar problems.
>
> I also haven't yet seen the kind of audio software in Linux that I can
> use on Windows and Mac. I'm rooting for it, but other musicians not
> as interested in getting inside their boxes are pretty dismissive
> about it.
>
> -Chuckk
Rosegarden-like apps? Lilypond? Nyquist?
Depends on what you want in the software, and whether what is out there
is radically different than what you're used to up to now (i.e. comes
with a distinct learning curve). This seems to be a recurring theme,
with at least a partial basis in the difference between the vision of
one/several people vs. a company addressing its understanding of the
people making up its market.
Ease of use is as much a mindset as anything else, and a features list
often serves marketing more than the actual user. Who uses even 10 or
20% of the features in any bloatware?
So much for rhetoric. :)
Seems to me that you should be able to try a quick compile of the
missing driver. That I've never done though...
Kenward
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