Hi,
since the webpage for the Linux Audio Conference 2010(*) was unclear on the
deadline for paper submissions, please let me clarify this here:
The deadline for _paper submissions_ is February 14th, 2010. Until yesterday,
the webpage incorrectly mentioned "Call for Abstracts", which should have read
"Call for Papers" instead. This has been corrected now.
Additionally, some information about the desired size and other constraints
for paper submissions has been added to the web page mentioned below.
Please feel free to forward this mail to whatever people/mailing lists are
suitable.
Sorry for the trouble,
Frank, on behalf of the LAC2010 organization team
(*) http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=participation
KMid2 is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4. It runs in Linux, using the ALSA
Sequencer.
KMid2 plays to hardware MIDI devices or software synthesizers. It supports
playlists, MIDI mapper, tempo (speed), volume and pitch (transpose) controls
and configurable character encoding, font and color for lyrics. The graphic
views include a rhythm view (visual metronome), a channels window with
solo/muting controls and instrument selectors, and a piano player window
(pianola). KMid2 runs in Linux, using the ALSA Sequencer.
Changes in this release 0.2:
* External soft-synths can be automatically launched at startup. A new page
including FluidSynth and TiMidity++ settings has been added to the
configuration dialog.
* Each channel may be labeled in a text field besides each channel number.
* New "lock instrument" button in the channels window to override the song's
predefined instruments.
* Settings per song can be saved and automatically retrieved, including text
encoding, volume, pitch, rhythm, channel labels and fixed instruments.
* The sample songs location is added to the places navigation panel in the
open dialog.
* Several other usability enhancements.
More info:
http://userbase.kde.org/KMid2
Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
KMid2 is free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 license.
Downloads
* Source packages
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/
* openSUSE RPMs, and Ubuntu DEB packages:
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&q=kmid2
Regards,
Pedro
Dear all,
the deadline for submission of papers for the Linux Audio Conference 2010(*)
is coming closer (February 14th, 2010), and (like last year) the amount of
submissions so far is..quite small. However, without papers and presentations
this kind of conference cannot exist.
I believe that most of the prospective paper submitters out there will probably
wait until the very last minute (I recall in one case there was even a bit of
a debate about "what exact time, and what time zone please?" :-), but it would
be helpful to get an idea of the upcoming submissions.
For this reason I am asking that if you plan to submit a paper, to give us/me
a short notice (title, topic) of your planned paper (direct reply, no need to
send that information to any of the addressed lists). This would help us in
planning the next necessary steps.
By the way, we are not considering to extend the paper deadline this year.
Please feel free to forward this mail to whatever people/mailing lists are
suitable.
Regards,
Frank Neumann, on behalf of the LAC2010 organization team
(*) See http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010
(I don't agree about the linux-audio-* mailing list
announcement policy, so from now on, program announcements
will only be posted to linux-audio-announce(a)lists.linuxaudio.org !)
Download from
=============
http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?C=M;O=D
jack_capture
============
jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack.
The default operation of the program is executed by writing "jack_capture"
in the terminal without any extra command line options:
$ jack_capture
...which will record what you hear in your loudspeakers
into a stereo wav file.
Most important new features since 0.9.36
========================================
* Direct support for mp3 using liblame.
* Console cleanup. Terminal should not be messy
when quitting jack_capture.
* Better buffering schemes.
* Less used memory.
Features
========
* Autogenerated filenames are unique and humanly readable.
* The 4GB size barrier for wav files is handled by continuing
writing to new files when reaching 4GB.
* Supports all soundfile formats supported by sndfile.
(wav, aiff, ogg, flac, wavex, au, etc.) (option: -f <format>)
* Supports mp3 by using liblame. (option: -mp3)
* Option for writing raw 16 bit data to stdout. (option: -ws)
* Built-in console meter, plus option for automatically starting
and stopping the Meterbridge jack meter program. Port
connections to Meterbridge are done automatically, and
on the fly, by jack_capture.
* jack_capture can connect to any input or output jack port.
When "connecting" to a jack input port (i.e. a writable
port), jack_capture constantly monitors which jack ports
which are connected to the input port, and make sure
jack_capture is always connected to the same ports.
In other words, jack_capture will reconnect its ports
automatically during recording to match the connections
of the ports. This is for instance convenient when
recording the playback ports since jack_capture can be
started first, and then other programs can start and
stop at any moment while all sound still should be recorded.
* No limit on the number of jack ports jack_capture can connect to.
(I.e. the --port argument can be specified more than once, plus
that it accepts wildcard arguments. For instance,
jack_capture --port "*"
will connect to all current jack ports, both input and output
ports, except jack_capture's own ports.)
* Buffers are automatically increased during runtime to prevent
underruns and to avoid wasting memory by preallocating too much.
(handled by using lockless atomic fifo/lifo queues to store
temporary sound data instead of ringbuffers)
* The disk thread is automatically reniced to a higher priority when
using more than half of the buffer.
* Significantly better recording performance than Ardour.
(probably because jack_capture writes all channels into
only one file and that it is not creating peak files).
(tested on athlonXP)
* No problem writing at least 256 channels of 32 bit wav at once to a
local hard drive. (tested on icore7)
Announcing the release of Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 LiveOS [nds & x86]
=====================================================================
About
-----
Guitar-ZyX(tm) is a LiveDVD/USB operating system distribution, that
can immediately boot both your Nintendo(tm)-DS, and your x86/64 PC,
into a guitar pre-amp f/x processing appliance, complete with
wireless dual screen touchpad remote control. You can even velcro
or embed the NDS in your guitar if so inclined. In addition to
switching among 77+ different f/x presets, the NDS remote control's
touchscreen can also linearly control any two of about a hundred
independent f/x parameters in real-time. I.e. a very cost effective
TouchScreenWhammyPad.
Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 uses the excellent Rakarrack open source guitar-f/x
software to provide effects. Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 is derived from
Fedora(tm)-11 and has compatable full access to the upstream software
repositories including updates.
Guitar-ZyX is entirely free and open source software, with all source
available, for both the PC and NDS components. All necessary
compilers and build tools are also included, allowing anyone to
modify and enhance in any way their imagination and code-fu skills
allow.
=====================================================================
Information
-----------
Guitar-ZyX is currently an *alpha* release. NO WARRANTY. Use at
your own risk. Interested alpha-testers are encouraged to provide
feedback on what works, and what still needs to be improved.
For information on many other features, and the best current
documentation, please review the latest release notes, available here
filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/guitarzyx/relnotes/index.html
or visit the main project page
http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/guitarzyx
=====================================================================
What's New In Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1
------------------------------
Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 is primarily a major upstream rebasing release.
That is, now f11 based. But there are many enhancments to
'sidestream' projects. Here are the details-
Guitar-ZyX MCP ::
Version 0.2* of the MCP now includes a main menu system. This allows
access to the filesystem in order to launch other applications such
as DSOrganize, and dozens of ZyXdevSuite examples. Browsing visible
SSIDs is now supported, and many more menu accessible features are
just around the corner. There is now a command to download and
execute updated MCP code via wifi, vastly easing development.
Rakarrack-0.4.0.dmc ::
The latest prerelease CVS sources including the fruits of my new cvs
write access are included. Josep Andreu has made many bugfixes and
improvements, including new skinnability and font scaling. Ryan
Billing has added new DSP modules, which I'll eventually understand
enough to properly explain. And my Global Wet/Dry is now an upstream
feature with a slider even(FX%). And more presets from all of us.
Rolling Echo is kind of interesting, while Tricky Dick is just an
homage to a crook.
Breaking News: rakarrack-0.4.2 with midi-learn was released the same
day as Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1. An update will be available at some point,
though compiling from source should be trivial for anyone interested.
Guitar-ZyX JaMode ::
The big sledgehammer session initiation scripts have been vastly
improved. Now, when you select one of the JaMode commands from the
ZyX submenu of the mainmenu, they will execute much more quickly, as
well as utilizing an aesthetic splash screen with progressbar during
the transition. There is one to launch a recording session, one to
launch a practice (non-recording) session, and one to return to the
normal desktop audio system.
desmume-0.9.5 ::
Every aspect of the MCP can now me developed and tested via
emulation, except sadly wifi/networking. But still, that is a vast
improvement over the bugs that were interfering with input handling
in prior versions while in a 3D mode. Sound works, virtual cflash
fatfs of the current directory sortof works, scaling the window, ....
(recording movies still seems broken though)
ZyX-LiveInstaller-0.2.2 ::
The same enhancements and bugfixes that led to its availability in
the official Blueberry release of SugarOnAStick, are now included
in Guitar-ZyX as well. Many bugfixes, thanks to a much broader
range of testing.
VirOS and *ZyX ::
Enhancements have been made to VirOS which make it robust and
possible to build across major ancestor releases. Also, many other
things, particularly in the traits, have been massively cleaned up,
though probably as much cleanup remains to be done. Time will tell
if this facilitates a much more rapid rebasing against f12. Note,
that it will still be another release or two before integration with
the relatively new upstream bootsplash is done. This is because f12
introduces a major rewrite of the initramfs infrastructure.
qemu-0.11.1 ::
/usr/local/bin/qemu is based on upstream sources, with kqemu support
intact, which on my laptop yields a greater than 100% speedup even
with linux kernel 2.6 for both the guest and host.
Games ::
Standard gnome-games like freecell/solitaire, and chess are
available. Frozen Bubble is also included - a much better rip off
than the one I coded partially in assembly more than a decade ago
for a CoE project. And most importantly, PokerTH is now available
for all of your open source online texas holdem needs.
...
peace...
-dmc
=====================================================================
"Be Seeing You..." -6
=====================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora and Nintendo are protected trademarks, whose holders in no way
endorse or support this software. Guitar-ZyX, G-ZyX, CloudSession,
and VirOS are also protected trademarks, and may only be used in the
redistribution of unmodified versions of free and open source
software that already includes them.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi
Rakarrack is a richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar
effects pedalboard. Effects include compressor, noise gate, graphic
equalizer, parametric equalizer, flanger, chorus, echo with reverse
playback, musical delay, reverb, digital phaser, analogic phaser, wah-wah,
alien-wah, harmonizer, and three flexible distortion modules including
sub-octave modulation and dirty octave up. Most of the effects engine is
built from modules found in the excellent software synthesizer ZynAddSubFX.
Presets and user interface are optimized for guitar, but Rakarrack processes
signals in stereo while it does not apply internal band-limiting filtering,
and thus is well suited to all musical instruments and vocals. Rakarrack is
designed for Linux distributions with Jack Audio Connection Kit.
http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net
News:
AUDIO:
- Two new effects have been added: Analog Phaser and Derelict Distortion.
- Limiter at the end of the chain.
- Four new waveshape types: Crunch, Hard Crunch, Dirty Octave+ and Modulated Square improving all the Distortion effects..
- Four new LFO wave types: Ramp Up, Ramp Down, Zig-Zag, Modulated Square improving Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Pan, etc.
- Sub Octave in Distortion effects.
- Reverse Echo.
- Compressor support for adjustable knee, switch (Mono/Stereo), improved automatic gain function.
- Global Wet/Dry (FX%)
- Improvements in Wah-Wah, Tuner and Harmonizer.
MIDI:
- Up to 104 controllable parameters.
- MIDI Learn for each preset, up to 20 effect parameters can be assigned to a single MIDI control message.
- jack MIDI
GUI:
- Scalable Fonts
- Background Image.
- New Logo and Icons.
- Minor things.
PRESETS
- 15 New Presets.
- Improvements on most of the old ones.
- Improved consistency between preset volume levels.
DOCS:
- Help updated.
BUGS:
- Fixed data problem with Big Endian architectures, now rakarrack runs properly on PowerPC and maybe others.
- Fixed important CPU usage bug related to computation of denormal numbers.
- Other minor bugs fixed.
Thanks, comments and suggestions are welcome.
The rakarrack team:
Josep Andreu - Ryan Billing - Douglas McClendon - Jose Luis di Biase - Hernan Ordiales
--
Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>
--
Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>
Hello folks,
Right on the heels of big One-O we've decided to release a minor
update with some corrections, main features being some package
improvements and a midi timing issue when running under very high
priority.
MusE : http://muse-sequencer.org
[Fixes since 1.0]
* Removed: Disabled watchdog thread. (T356)
* Changed/Fixed: Thread priorites: Added command line switches
for audio (-P) and midi (-Y). (T356)
- Audio (-P) applies to dummy driver only.
(Else audio priority is fixed by Jack).
Fixes potential issue with midi timing when MusE was assigned
a very high priority.
* Added: Enable/disable LASH command line switch (-L),
(if LASH support is compiled in). (T356)
- Helps prevent some issues like auto-starting Jack, or
automatically routing midi to fluidsynth (observed).
* Fixed: BUG ID: 2879426: *.med does not save meta event types. (T356)
* Fixed: Midi meters now show for each track even if they're all on
same device and channel. (T356)
* Applied: muse-destdir.patch Scripts and utils packaging fix
submitted by Orcan Ogetbil. (T356)
* Fixed: python detection exchanged for script from http://libvirt.org/ (rj)
* Feature: Jack transport enable/disable in Midi Sync settings window.
Stores setting per-song. (T356)
- Should be Ok to use and test. Needs a bit more work. See jack.cpp
and jackaudio.h
* Fixed: Speedups of audio pre-fetch especially when moving the cursor
around (seeking). (T356)
[What is MusE again?]
MusE is multitrack virtual studio with support for:
* Midi
(only Alsa yet)
* internal softsynths, including soundfont player FluidSynth
and sample player Simple Drums
* DSSI softsynths, including VST instruments
* with a patch to DSSI, VST-chunks are handled
* Drum editor
* Pianoroll
* Conventional arranger
* midi automation
* and lots more
* Audio
* Jack
* Jack transport
* LADSPA plugins
* VST plugins through dssi-vst
* audio automation, old sch00l
* and lots more
[ChangeLog]
For a complete list of changes, check the ChangeLog in
the package or online at the sourceforge site:
http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse/ChangeLog?revision…
[Download]
http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Download
The MusE team
What? No automation, yet?
Yes I failed the promise once again. So what? What would you expect from
this self-called über-procrastinator? As sure is one to say that this is
the Year of Linux Desktop (YOLD:), I'll give you the shivers and command
this one will be the year of Qtractor Automation. No kiddin' ;)
Meanwhile, this new dot-release brings you several niceties, a couple of
them have been waaay longer and dustier on the all-mighty-overdue TODO
list than automation is. Rejoice! or else...
Qtractor 0.4.4 (frisky demivierge) is in the wild!
Release highlights:
* LV2 plug-in support (NEW)
* MIDI event list view (NEW)
* Expedite audio/MIDI clip import (NEW)
* DSSI plug-in output control ports feedback/update (NEW)
* JACK transport, MMC, SPP control options (NEW)
* Self-bounce/recording (FIX)
* Audio/MIDI drift correction (FIX)
* Anti-glitch audio micro-fade-in/out ramp smoothing (FIX)
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.4.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 11.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.4-2.rncbc.suse112.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 11.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.4-2.rncbc.suse112.i5…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.4-2.rncbc.suse112.x8…
- binary packages (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS; no LV2 support):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.4-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.4-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_…
- binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.4-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.4-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_…
- user manual (ever still outdated):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf
Weblog (upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- For all the DSSI plugins that have output control ports, a host
feedback/update process cycle is now being finally provided: all output
control ports are now marshaled to their respective GUI process, rather
often and when found open/visible.
- MIDI clip editor (aka piano-roll) snap-to-beat behavior on edit mode
is now kind of more like 'filling-in-the-blanks' (as Frank Neumann et
al. wishes ;)
- Fixed MIDI clip editor mistake when reverting to initial clip length,
before closing and discard changes (thanks to Frank Neumann, for
spotting this one).
- LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap just makes
it a shortcut to File/Save.
- Avoid parameter value flickering, due to duplicate command invocation,
most evident when changing values massively on native Linux VSTi plugin
editor GUIs (thanks to a detailed report on this odd behavior, from Mike
of linuxDSP.co.uk).
- Another TODO item bites the dust: MIDI event list editor, now
accessible from the MIDI clip editor menu (View/Events)
- Last used session directory is now made current on startup only when
no filename is given on the command line (solving bug #2920244).
- Current snap-to-beat setting (time quantization) now affects the
anchor event only, while dragging, moving and/or pasting multiple events
over the MIDI clip editor (aka piano-roll).
- Make anti-glitch audio clip micro fade-in/outs independent from
current buffer size as much as possible.
- Audio/MIDI engine drift correction gets really sophisticated, with the
help of (now old) ALSA MIDI tempo skew facility.
- Edit/Clip/Import... menu option is now available for expedite clip
insertion from audio and MIDI file requesters.
- Set default session directory effective to file's location.
- Audio track/clip recording process has been target to special
re-factorization across the internal audio engine process cycle, in a
late attempt to get self-bounce/recording effective and working
consistently for all track layouts.
- All session related dialogs are now set to window modality, (were set
to default application modality before) allowing for continued input
focus and interaction on all plugin/tool windows.
- An off-by-one nasty old bug fixed in audio clip drawing, was causing
instant crashes on certain zoom levels of the main track view.
- Graphical MIDI clip representation regarding note/pitch range is now
kept as much as possible across clip edits (cut, copy, paste, drag,
move, delete, etc.)
- LV2 plug-in hosting has finally come into actual implementation; only
some and the most basic LV2 plug-in features are supported at the
moment; probably there's no big advantage against the old LADSPA ones;
there's some support for external UIs though; also, LV2 MIDI/Event
bare-bones support is included but chances are it won't build nor work
right on most of the setups out there. It's a WIP host implementation
anyways, as is the whole LV2 spec. for that matter ;)
- Connections filter is now reset when widget is shown through the
View/Connections main menu or toolbar button.
- Audio bus auto-connection option is now applied when creating or
updating, newer or existing buses, respectively.
- Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to disk
whenever View/Options... dialog changes are applied or when a session is
loaded or saved.
- Audio ramping spin-locking makes its smooth stuff, in an attempt to
reduce glitching and crackling when editing (due to its own pseudo
spin-locking) and toggling playback states.
- JACK Transport, MMC Device, and MIDI Song Position pointer (SPP)
control modes are now made optional (View/Options...), allowing for
discretionary configuration: None/Disabled, Slave/Input, Master/Output
or Full/Duplex (default).
- Session files may now be dragged and dropped over the main track view
and get loaded for business as usual (once quietly ignored).
- In an attempt to mitigate potential stack corruption and sudden
crashes, old commented out session pseudo-locks are now back in business
while executing clip editing commands (cut, paste, drag, move, insert,
delete) and playback is currently rolling.
- Adjusted first-time application window size to fit into 800x600 screen
size and with reasonable initial dock-ables layout.
- Avoid duplicate snap-to-grid effect when changing the length of MIDI
clip editor events across non-zero clip offsets (after a glitch reported
by Ralf Mardorf).
- Late audio track processing optimization, suppressing all plugin,
mixer and monitor pass-through activity when given track is muted,
either explicitly or implicitly (ie. other track is in solo state).
- Entering System Exclusive events (SysEx) on the MIDI clip editor (aka
matrix/piano-roll widget), yet something not fully supported anyway,
even though allowed in edit mode, doesn't crash the whole damn thing
anymore, while saving the clip to a file.
- Strict aliasing avoidance, with plain and demanded use of 'union', as
much as to stop nagging warnings from gcc >= 4.4.1 (last seen on
src/qtractorMidiEvent.h hackery).
- Visual correct play-head position while changing zoom levels,
applicable to both main track and MIDI clip editor views.
Cheers && Enjoy.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Sorry for crossposting, please drink soup
//
Puredyne 9.10 - Carrot and Coriander
------------------------------------
Puredyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution aimed at creative people,
looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the best
experimental creative applications alongside a solid set of graphic,
audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package. For everything from
sound art to innovative filmmaking.
Puredyne is optimised for use in realtime audio and video processing. It
distinguishes itself by offering a low latency kernel and the high
responsiveness needed by artists working in this field.
Puredyne is based on Ubuntu and Debian Live. All packages provided by
Puredyne can be used if you are running this flavour of GNU/Linux.
http://puredyne.goto10.org/about.html
//
64-bit support!
---------------
(.. and more architectures to come...)
Starting with this release, we are happy to provide support for a new
experimental branch of Puredyne for 64-bit CPUs. We need your feedback
to develop this further, so please get one of these amd64 Puredyne CD or
DVD, and tell us how it works for you!
http://puredyne.goto10.org/download.html
//
Yeah, fork me baby!!!
---------------------
Thanks to broth, the mother of all soups, it is now very easy to make
your own Puredyne based recipe. Get the pan, mix in your ingredients
and cook slowly. Using broth, two new Puredyne/broth based distros have
been released:
* Puredyne craftivism: a special liveUSB key specially made for the
craftivism exhibition. You can purchase (at cost) this collector item
at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, UK. http://www.craftivism.net
* sidistro: a greek flavoured distribution focussed on privacy and
anonymity. http://sid.gr/doku.php/agenda/distro
Why not make one yourself? (and impress friends and family with
your very own livethingie)
https://launchpad.net/broth
//
Join the team!
--------------
(we have internets)
Do you like adventures? Giant robots, waterfalls and dinosaurs? Then
join the dev team! We are always looking for people to help us make
Puredyne a better distribution for musicians, artists and media
designers. We need help on all fronts! you can type a mail? you're
hired! :)
https://launchpad.net/puredynehttps://bugs.launchpad.net/puredynehttps://launchpad.net/~puredyne-teamhttps://launchpad.net/~puredyne-community
//
Free Libre Open Source Soup + Art
---------------------------------
(as seen in /usr/share/soup)
A nice soup, a classic combination made with both fresh and
ground coriander - but the fresh coriander added near the end of cooking
really adds the bright flavour of coriander to match with the carrot.
Ingredients
===========
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 large onion,diced
* 500g carrots, diced
* 1 teaspoon ground coriander
* 1.2 litres vegetable stock
* large bunch Fresh Coriander, roughly chopped
* Salt
* Black Pepper
Method
======
1. Heat the olive oil in a non-stick pan, to a medium heat.
2. Add the sliced carrots and diced onions. Cook for approximately 5
minutes until they start to soften.
3. Add the ground coriander and salt & pepper. Cook for a further 1
minute.
4. Add the vegetable stock bring the mixture to the boil. Simmer for
10-15 minutes until the carrots are very soft.
5. Blend until smooth.
6. Add the fresh coriander.
7. Serve.
source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Carrot_and_coriander_soup
BY-SA 3.0
//
Puredyne is brought to you by the Puredyne team, with help and support
from GOTO10 and Arts Council England. Special Thanks to the Debian Live
project.
:*
---
Puredyne(a)goto10.org
http://identi.ca/group/puredyneirc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
Hello,
On the heels of AV Linux 3.0, version 3.0R1 (R1=Revision 1) has been
released. I, better than anyone perhaps realize the inconvenience of a new
version so quickly, it is my hope that this is the best move in the long
run to provide a stable base that has a broader possible range of
installation and can be better maintained with updated packages over the
course of a longer "shelf life". This fixes many of the installation
issues created by 3.0 as well as streamlining and drastically reducing the
ISO size down to just over a Gigabyte. My sincere thanks to the AV Linux
users who were guinea pigs and helped to test and provide feedback on
3.0R1 before it's release. Due to the large volume of updates and
improvements a 3.0R1 final ISO has been created to replace the 3.0R1
"testing" ISO. Thanks as always to the Debian pkg-multimedia team for
their continuing stellar work. Here are the changes, sometimes we have to
take a step back to move ahead!
AV Linux 3.0R1 Changes:
- Removed all locales except CA, US and GB to conserve ISO space, AV Linux
and Remastersys are English only anyway. Users can still change the
keyboard layout for different countries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- Removed many peripheral apps any of which are a Synaptic click away to
install, AV Linux now focuses on a multimedia-centred mature core of
applications.
- Fixed and improved nVidia and Synaptics Touchpad detection issues by
rolling back to Xorg 7.3, this also simplifies changing keyboard layouts.
Updating to Xorg 7.4 can be done after installing by unpinning the Xorg
and related packages in Synaptic and updating if you feel the need to run
Xorg 7.4 (not really necessary in most cases).
- Fixed UUID issues with fstab by rolling back hal and consolekit, Hey
Debian...does hal REALLY need to be updated 7 times a day?! I think not.
- Fixed slow booting by rolling back to udev 141, AV Boots like lightning
now! Again, Debian...can't things that work in Linux just be left alone
for a while?!
- Fixed issues with Unetbootin, AV Linux runs from USB keys again.
Persistent storage is not an easy option with Debian, it doesn't use
casper-rw like Ubuntu.
- Fixed Openbox and obconf issues, obconf now runs and saves it's config
properly.
- Updated to LXDE 0.5.0, lxpanel now handles GTK themes much better and
there are many more right-click options throughout LXDE
- Added Rui Nuno Capela's rtirq script at boot time (works with -rt Kernel
only)
- Updated FFADO to the 2.0 Stable release
- Updated Ardour to Debian GIT 2.8.4-3 source with LV2 support
- Updated Rosegarden to 10.02 Beta - report bugs to the Rosegarden
developers mailing list
- Updated Bristol to 0.40.7
- Updated Fluidsynth to 1.1.1 it now works with Qsynth 0.3.4
- Latest musE is available as an add-on here:
http://www.bandshed.net/checkinstall/
- Updated Openshot Video Editor to 1.0
- Updated LiVES to 1.1.8
- Updated DeVeDe to 3.15
- Updated Guitarix to 0.05.8
- Added JC GUI 0.7
- Added ipw2X00 wireless firmware
- Updated ivtv firmware for Hauppage TV cards
- Added mhwaveedit - nice light soundfile editor!
- Replaced Brasero with Gnomebaker...latest Brasero wouldn't burn Audio
CD's??
- Tidy up menus, launchers and icons
- New Logo and Artwork
- many more subtle improvements
Screenshots:
http://www.bandshed.net/images/AV3R1desktopthumb.pnghttp://www.bandshed.net/images/ArdourwPluginsthumb.png
PLEASE NOTE:
There are changes to the AV Linux Website as well, a new "Packages" page
clarifies where to get AV Linux Debs and Kernels, access it by clicking
the "Packages" button from the home page. PLEASE READ THE WEBSITE INFO
CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING!
I plan to support AV Linux 3.0R1 with Rosegarden's stable Thorn release,
Ardour 3 as soon as source becomes available in Debian GIT and keep pace
with the major developments in Linux Multimedia. Please remember AV Linux
has and always will come pre-loaded with the necessary development
libraries to build most of the included apps from source so if you are
handy with a compiler you can enjoy new apps as soon as they are
available.
HELP NEEDED!
Help is needed from experienced Linux users on the AV Linux forum, My
Linux knowledge is specific to Multimedia Distro and Kernel creation but
is very general in other areas, Help is needed for other important areas
like networking and other core Linux problems like hard drive issues etc
etc. Other than donations technical support assistance is the most needed
attribute at the present time. If you are a new user please join the AV
Linux forum here: http://geekconnection.org/remastersys/forums/index.php#7
DONATIONS NEEDED!
The AV Linux 3.0 ISO was accessed in excess of 18000 times which resulted
in 3 donations, My heartfelt thanks to those who stepped up and
contributed however AV Linux takes about 20+ hours a week to maintain,
develop, test and improve. The current level of funding is not carrying
the project's expenses let alone providing any compensation for my work,
this unfortunately cannot continue much longer, like anyone I have to
prioritize my responsibilities and those 20+ hours are too precious to
give away for nothing. Thanks are appreciated...but donations are needed.
To clarify you are not paying for the software, it is free... however the
hosting, packaging, preparation and convenience services are not.
Enough Talk! Let's get to the good stuff.
Download from the AV Linux Website:
http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html
