On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Jostein Chr. Andersen
<jostein@vait.se> wrote:
onsdagen den 28 mars 2012 09.55.20 skrev Dan MacDonald:
> ???
???
> > another new sign that shows that the Linux desktop user is becoming more
> > and
> > more interesting for commercial vendors. :-)
>
> What is this sign that the Linux desktop is becoming more interesting to
> commercial vendors? Mixbus?
If I stick to the music related stuff, wich is a very small world in numbers
when we talk IT, this is some of the one that has started doing music software
for Linux the last years:
Invada, LinuxDsp, Loomer, Indamixx, Pianoteq, Guitar Pro,
Transcribe!, MuSing, energyXT, Renoise, UltraMixer and
TrueFire (video player for guitar training)
There is also soon to be Bitwig and I suppose we could also count 4front's OSS too
Most of this vendors/products was not in the Linux Music lanscape until
recently. For me that has been using Linux sice the mid 90's, this is a huge
improvements, and i believe that this list will expand a lot more the upcoming
years.
Jostein
I saw an article on commercial, non-FOSS software for Linux recently and the odd thing was that the majority of the apps listed were music related - indeed it seems Linux audio has a relative 'glut' of commercial offerings compared to other types of app so I can only presume JACK's fame and usage is on the rise but the Linux desktop shall remain the domain of the computing enthusiast/ professional. I'm happy with that and I'd expect everyone else here has grown to accept that too - there are just too many obstacles between its acceptance for it to be any other way and the eeePC's crappy distro and massive return rate didn't do Linux on the desktop any favours did it?