a simple poll for your ml people here:
a.) what (linux) distribution do you use?
mainly :
APODIO (based on mandrake)
http://www.apodio.org (audio & video)
AGNULA :
http://www.agnula.org (audio)
MANDRAKE :
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29
sometimes :
Debian :
http://debian.org
dynebolic :
http://dynebolic.org (audio & video)
fedora :
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=64
...etc
b.) does the distribution that you use supply a lot of
audio-related packages
by default?
yes that the case with APODIO, AGNULA and DYNEBOLIC
c.) do you consider the distribution that you use to be
notably adequate for
audio production? why?
For audio production (studio recording, post-production, composition,
webradio & radio broadcast, real-time concerts & installation...etc)
it's excelent!! I was under macinsto$h world before, using different
"pro" audio tools and since 3/4 years I only works with linux in audio
production, and I could work as "pro" in all the production I want to do.
It's adequate because I could realize all the works I need to do :
recording sounds (jackit, qarecord, jackmix, ardour, rezound, audacity,
mhwaveedit...etc), mixing it (ardour, audacity...etc), masterized it
(jamin, rezound...), produce CD (K3B, Gcombust...), produce webcasting
(icecast, ices, puredata...) & jukebox (zina...), real time concerts &
installation (puredata, jackit, jack-rack, FreqTweak, terminatorX,
spiralSynthModular...)... and it's poilitcal & ethically in the way I
want to work with art (GNU, copyleft, GPL...), it's based on relation
between people and the human being not on business and personnal profit...
julien