CAN [GNU]LINUX do for music what it did for server applications? Ask Dave Phillips. His linux-sound.org website is a resource for everything from hard-disk recorders to music notation editors. This issue offers a preview of the 2.6 kernel and the audio excellence of Linux....
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o Football manager http://www.autismuk.freeserve.co.uk Graphics are crude; but the game is a lot of fun.
o Magic notebook: http://www.joanthanscorner.com/etc/magic_notebook Keep notes using a web interface.
o Server status: http://www.the-den.org/status Keep an eye on servers. Needs X, but clean, fast, simple.
o Pebrot: http://pebrot.sourceforge.net Python version of MSN Messengers, runs without X.
o GNU Pilot Logbook Pro ftp.stampede.org/skibum/gplbp/bplbp.tar.gz Professional logbook for pilots will all entries you need.
o Hardware Lister http://ezix.sourceforge.net/software/lshw.html IRQ, module used and more for cards and hardware.
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o Ericsson releases source code for its Telecom Inter-Process Communication under the GNU GPL.
o Japan to spend $8.3 million on open-source development for Linux development for consumer electronic goods. Also $416,000 to switch Japanese government computers over to free software.
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o Introducing Plone, a simple content management solution that allows all readers to read publicly available content, and those given permissions to publish their content to the general public.
o Writing stackable filestystems: Now you can add a feature to your favourite filesystem without rewriting it.
o Battles inside the computer
o Using Firewall Builder, Part I: use one easy GUI to build and deploy policies for all your firewalls and servers.
o TECH TIP: A simple script to search a collection of RPM packages for a specific file...
o Advanced memory allocation
o INTRODUCING THE 2.6 KERNEL: scheduler and audio improvements are only two of the features you'll notice when the 2.5 development series becomes 2.6. Other important features include O(1) scheduler / preemptive kernel / latency improvements / redesigned block layer / improved VM subsystem / improved threading support / new sound layer.
o Starting with the 2.5 series, it's simpler and faster to customize your kernel or add a driver.
o Kernel mode Linux: Now you don't have to write a module to run a program in kernel space. Run any program there with this patch.
o Reiser4, Part II: Designing trees that cache well.
o SOUND SOFTWARE to turn your GNU/Linux box into a synthesizer studio: GPL amSynth Great analog synth emulation Proprietary Elara Proprietary UltramasterJuno6 GPL Bristol GPL LegaSynth Emulates DX7 and some chips GPL ALSA Modular GPL SpiralSynth Modular GPL MSS GPL AUBE Proprietary RTSynth Proprietary JSyn Varied synthesis methods, excel sound GPL ZynAddSubFX GPL Cumulus Unique real-time granular synthesis GPL gAlan Interesting 'module processing' env GPL jMax LADSPA support planned BSD-ish Pd Rich syntehsis, OpenGL, VST/LADSPA,JACK GPL Freebirth Bass synth, sample sequencer Proprietary UltramasterRS101 Like Freebirth but more GPL iisusynth GPL RX/Saturno
o Learning regular expressions. For precision of text manipulation and description, it's hard to beat the power of regexps.
o DOING GOOD AND PREVENTING BAD: If you didn't know about Linux Journal publisher Phil Hughes and his background in a nuke plant and as a anti-nuclear protester, Costa Rica's renewable source-produced energy, and the link between such issues... check this out!
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Frederick Noronha (FN)