5 Dec
2002
5 Dec
'02
4:40 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:38:41PM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
Happily, for some stuff the answer is yes. For other
things, glaringly
not. If you think things in the Linux audio world aren't very clearly
defined now, you should have been here in 1999. ;) Some of today's most
interesting projects (Ardour, LADSPA, JACK, low-latency kernel, etc.)
were either non-existent or had only just got started. My most painful
omissions were ecasound, Lilypond, and Pd, but rest assured, they'll be
covered in the next book.
Rats! I've just ordered the current version. Looks like some of it will
be out of date before it arrives. Still, there's a lot for me to learn &
I'm sure it will be useful.
Btw, it might interest some of you to note that the
book had an initial
pressing of 5000 copies (IIRC). A few months ago my publicist at No
Starch notified me that the first edition was almost sold out. So the
book took almost two years to sell out its first run: those figures
might give some notion of what sort of base numbers we're looking at
when we start discussing the possible extent of the Linux audio
community.
Don't be surprised if it goes quicker the second time. The linux community
has expanded a lot recently, and so have the amateur and semi-pro digital
audio community, and as you point out above there are many new software
projects and initiatives going on in the Linux audio world.
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