[LAU] Linux/Musix/Debian on a UMPC
david
gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Sep 15 10:17:10 UTC 2011
Please add XFCE and LXDE as lighter desktop environments, too. (Although
I do like OpenBox.) KDE4 can be a hefty load to have on a music distro.
Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote:
> Thanks for your kind words, Grazie Nicola.
>
> Musix v3 is based comes with KDE 4, we're tweaking it to match our
> particular desktop. But we don't forget other lighter desktop
> enviroments as in previous versions, so we have at least IceWM and
> Openbox (I myself am working on it because it is perfect for save
> resources for live playing on the UMPC).
>
> Ciao.
>
>
> 2011/9/14 nicola.di.marzo @vodafone.it
>
> Hi Carlos, really great news about musix, thank you!
> I use Ubuntu Studio 10.04 and i'd like to move to Musix in the
> future...(to reach my free/libre voices inside)
>
> Many thanks to Musix community for their efforts,
> Will Musix 3 come out with Kde still or you're considering another DE ?
> Free as in freedom
> Nicola
>
> 2011/9/13 Carlos sanchiavedraz <csanchezgs at gmail.com
> <mailto:csanchezgs at gmail.com>>
>
> Hi, Ronald!
>
> 2011/9/13 Ronald Stewart <ronaldjstewart at gmail.com
> <mailto:ronaldjstewart at gmail.com>>
>
> hi
>
> Our samsung Q1 ultra works well and stable since 2.1... not
> much HW around these days so we moved on to Indamixx2 which
> has ported nicely with RC3 thanks to Gabriel Beddingfield.
>
> Indamixx2 on sale for $549.00
> http://www.indamixx.com/shop-130.html
>
>
> I wasn't up to date with Indamixx news and... what a surprise
> and nice cool product that Transmission 5!
> Is it an iPad/Galaxy tab alike tablet? Which one is it?
> Really appealing. I take mental note of that for anyone I can
> give a piece of advice.
>
> Is just that being in the Musix team, well, I would like to make
> this work :). Anyway, this Viliv just ended up in my hands, and
> now that I have it for testing I would like to make something
> useful of it for portable music.
>
>
>
> We do have customers who have hacked on their own mods of
> transmission 2.1 on the samsung q1 ultra and have come up
> with some nice results.
>
> I have the viliv products here for years as they gave me one
> of each to test on for Indamixx 2 back in 2009 but I passed
> until something had more CPU and better quality build. The
> Viliv had the Z Atom chip and the build waas really
> flimsy... certainly not DJ duty or ready for a road gig :)
>
>
> I didn't notice that this Viliv had a less CPU than Samsung, but
> I think is robust, at least is quite heavy. Besides this
> hardware problems, I've been able to use it as a looper, multiFX
> and recording tool at the same time. Trying to be like a
> one-man-band doing drums with Hydrogen or with my hands, bass
> with FX or the guitar itself, jamming along and things like that.
>
>
> If I remember correctly Free had to hack Xorg and do some
> cool tweaks to get the touch running correctly and not
> wonky. It seems like wonky comes up a lot in touch on the
> tablets but we are reporting good results on Indamixx2
> albeit beta still and RC3 which I think is totally
> acceptable for a lil audio droid that has a lot of features
> for music production.
>
>
> Would love any contact or extended information that can guide me
> just a little. Been trying many things and also googling for
> more but no luck.
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Ronald Stewart
> Indamixx
>
>
> Thanks to you, Ronald, and good luck with the new Indamixx
> adventure.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Carlos sanchiavedraz
> <csanchezgs at gmail.com <mailto:csanchezgs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> 2011/9/13 david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>>
>
> Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote:
>
>
>
> 2011/9/10 david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>>>
>
>
> Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote:
>
> Hi all, dear LAUers.
>
> I've been doing some testing with Musix 3
> beta (based on Debian
> Squeeze)
>
>
> Where did you get Musix 3 Beta? I can't find
> anything higher than
> 2.1 at their site.
>
> -- David
> gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>>
>
> authenticity, honesty, community
> ______________________________ _________________
> Linux-audio-user mailing list
> Linux-audio-user at lists. linuxaudio.org
> <http://linuxaudio.org>
> <mailto:Linux-audio-user@
> lists.linuxaudio.org
> <mailto:Linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>>
>
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/
> listinfo/linux-audio-user
> <http://lists.linuxaudio.org/
> listinfo/linux-audio-user
> <http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user>>
>
>
> We're working on it right now, there some
> testing versions here:
> http://wiki.musix.es/index.
> php?title=Categor%C3%ADa:
> Versiones_de_prueba_de_Musix
> <http://wiki.musix.es/index.php?title=Categor%C3%ADa:Versiones_de_prueba_de_Musix>
>
> That wiki page is new for people who wants to
> colaborate that is not in the
> collaborator/developer's list. There wasn't such
> a list before. Sorry but no english version yet,
> but soon I hope.
>
> We've been developing version 3 for some time
> now, and the reports have been quite favorable,
> but we'd like to work on it some more. I myself
> hope to include some basic apps I've developed,
> and take the opportunity to release them on
> Github or similar. But as always... time is what
> is needed :).
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Carlos sanchiavedraz
>
>
> Ah, thanks for the news and the link. I like Musix,
> even though the last one that worked on my musicbox
> was a beta of Musix 2. The production version of 2
> somehow lost the ability to work with the boring old
> Intel video hardware that the beta knew how to work
> with.
>
> Anyway, I look forward to testing Musix 3!
>
>
> --
> David
> gnome at hawaii.rr.com <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>
> authenticity, honesty, community
> ______________________________ _________________
> Linux-audio-user mailing list
> Linux-audio-user at lists. linuxaudio.org
> <mailto:Linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/
> listinfo/linux-audio-user
> <http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user>
>
>
>
> We'd love you (anyone, of course) to make some tests and
> we're open to new ideas.
> Feel free to suscribe to any of our lists; there's an
> english version:
> * musix-users at lists.ourproject.org
> <mailto:musix-users at lists.ourproject.org>
>
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Carlos sanchiavedraz
> * Musix GNU+Linux
> http://www.musix.es
--
David
gnome at hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
More information about the Linux-audio-user
mailing list