What I want from Linux is....OSes and Art and Visualization....

There already is a Linux "art" system (see below) but as far as whether
or not it's not as good, as good or better than a Mac system depends
entirely on what the user wants it to do. For my current work, Linux is
definitely better, much better. It does almost everything I do faster
than my Mac.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
Planet CCRMA (CCRMA is pronounced ``karma'') at Home is a collection of
rpms (RPM stands for RedHat Package Manager) that you can add to a
computer running RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9 or Fedora Core 1 to transform it
into an audio workstation with a low-latency kernel, current ALSA audio
drivers and a nice set of music, midi, audio and video applications. It
replicates most of the Linux environment we have been using for years
here at CCRMA for our daily work in audio and computer music production
and research. Planet CCRMA is easy to install and maintain, it can be
installed and upgraded over the network from the Planet CCRMA apt
repository or its mirrors, or from cdroms you can download from this site.


Pall

[email protected] wrote:
>
> For its denizens to leave 1977 and embrace the modern
> world which overall they/we have.;) My problem is I haven't
> found a replacement for many Windows or MAC graphics tools.
>
> THer GIMP would be great with improvements and if the
> Windows version was $79.00US, then my giftie version of
> Photoshop CS bought by a friend still is a bit better.;)
>
> Yeah it would be nice if things worked in as many browsers
> and across platforms as much as possible and have it work
> everywhere. Alas I have not got to the point where I can ban
> anything from my from desktop. Since I actually use my computer
> to do stuff other than OS wizardry I can't be cavilier about
> doing things that would say smash the MBR and many Linuxers but
> that in the "Stuff happens categorey."
>
> Interesting idea spun off by thia, is how much effort and
> cost would it take to make a Linux or BSD art system that would
> be as good as a reasonable costing MAC plus software. I know in
> the PC world if you are good at throwing things together it is
> indeed possible to beat Gateway or Dell at their "let's build
> one for you" game. Although Gateway did do a good thing with
> the old system I had back in the Ohio Valley. I liked the COREL
> stuff they had.
>
> Right now I do lots of visualization stuff for "science" purposes
> like meteorology and its intreresting. Lots of the number crunchy
> model stuff is all Linux and (giggle) Fortran 7x-20xx+. A lot depends
> on having movie players and the like to do animation. So they pretty
> much use Windows platforms because they are what's around.
>
> It would be nice to have nice Linux desktops that worked well for
> science and art and where you could write the reports on them too.
> I notice that some of my fun Linux books were typeset for publication
> using windows. Note well the GIMP books weren't. So there is
> potential to do things there. My big problem is that not all of us
> are well off artists.;) Some of us are less well off whatever we ares.;)
> I think Linux could really help in such a place.
> Have Fun,
> Sends Steve
>
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