[ubuntu-us-nm] IRC Meetings

[Kiernan Holland]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Nick <nick at nick125.com> wrote:

> SFD is Software Freedom Day, an one day event celebrating and
> promoting...well, software freedom. I don't think we have any Ubuntu Studio
> CDs as Canonical doesn't have any as far as I'm aware of.
>

Well you can make some..
Anyhow, it's a package you can add on to any ubuntu, here is how:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-desktop
ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-graphics
ubuntustudio-video linux-rt

The other way is to download the live cd's from their website, but I've had
troubles getting my USB keyboard to work with those.

http://ubuntustudio.org/

Ubuntu Studio is a distro focused on creative applications, like Blender,
Gimp, Kino, Ardour, Rosegarden, and such. Plus it installs the realtime
Linux kernel so that audio bound processes get priority over other system
tasks, increasing responsiveness and reducing latency.

These videos demonstrate what can be done with Jack and ZynAddSubFx that
come with Ubuntu Studio (note, Jack will not work well without the realtime
kernel):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-biXHnFaKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPdrA4XBvT0

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Go to 1:00:17 in this video to see Patchage, the program that permits one to
route audio and midi lines from program to program within linux using Jack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu94ptNASVw

I could have picked something more interesting than Black Sabbath's  "Iron
Man" (1:10:00) to demonstrate rosegarden, fluidsynth, zynaddsubfx, jackrack
and jack. But it was just a spur of the moment thing.



>
> We could use some short demo videos to loop though at our SFD display.
> Doesn't have to be Ubuntu specific (and probably shouldn't be), but it would
> be cool to show off some of the cool eye candy, office programs, etc in
> Linux.
>
>
We could offer a PC setup with Jack, and route audio from a microphone into
the Jack Rack, then mix the output of Jack Rack with the input of
ZynAddsubFx from a midi keyboard.. Allow people to play the ZynAddSubFx via
Midi.. Then output to the speaker. There is nothing better than being able
to experience it.

Also you might try a program like "terminatorx":

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgrXfetf5Ts

LMMS is a FLStudio clone, that permits you to do similar things to FLStudio
(youtube search for FLStudio and for LMMS).

To demonstrate Wine, one could use the Art Rage 2.5 demo that is
downloadable and installable with "winedoors". Get a Wacom tablet and
connect it. Or install some games like Half Life 2.

Then maybe have a running copy of Virtualbox running Windows in a window.

But if the concern arises about productivity you could show them GIMP or
Open Office.

I think something that might raise some eyebrows is to install a different
version of Ubuntu over an existing install without losing data in the "home"
directory.. How hard would that to be done on Windows? Make separate
partitions for root and home.. I've kept the same install of wine games,
while moving between versions of Ubuntu and Xubuntu, even between 32-bit
Ubuntu 7.10 and 64-bit Xubuntu 7.10.  I've had the same home partition for
several years, albeit changing versions of Ubuntu. I think that would be a
unique point.

A point I often make about why Linux is virus free is the accessibility of
software via the package manager rather than forcing people to go searching
for application on the internet via the web.

Just think of how many people are told to go looking for drivers on
bit-torrent, who knows if those distributions contain viruses (it would be
the perfect way to inject trojans into someone's machine).

One has a better chance of protecting them from viruses by having every
package verified against the source, automatically handled by the package
manager, with Ubuntu.  However you are still running a risk, but not as much
of one as distributions on linux are more accountable than the source-less
windows binaries floating around the net.

Also part of the focus could be to introduce windows users to linux with
WUBI, even if it isn't a complete adoption of Ubuntu, it gets the foot in
the door.

Those are just some of my ideas..



> Cheers,
> Nick
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Tour 9630
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kiernan Holland <rofthorax at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:59:29
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