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Originally posted by NeoPhono I have a dual boot machine in which I run Redhat Fedora Core 4 using GNOME (linux) the majority of the time, and then I use Windows XP (grugingly) for the applications I can't get to work using a Windows emulator like WINE and that I can't find a good alternative for under linux. My lovely desktop...

looks sweet except for that ugly ass desktop background

My budgetary constraints have me favoring linux at the moment. Linux is great for the "live more, buy less" philosphy. It takes more time to make operational, so in deciding between windows vs linux one must decide how many dollars their time is worth. Many favor MS because in professions that time spent making linux work ends up being more costly than licensing microsoft products.

I am trying to produce music in linux and it turns out that the tools available are surprisingly good. I have bounced between many distributions but find that currently debian is the most usable, I have on my computer a derivative of debian tuned for audio performance which is called demudi.

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Originally posted by Zombie0915 My budgetary constraints have me favoring linux at the moment. Linux is great for the "live more, buy less" philosphy. It takes more time to make operational, so in deciding between windows vs linux one must decide how many dollars their time is worth.

Depends on how much control you want of your environment. Personally, I have a rather high degree of control of how my OS works, and it would take me months to configure Windoze to that degree.
Oh yeah, tell me this is ugly:

Tranceaholic, is that xmms?

EDIT: Uhh.. oops.. nevermind. How did you get rid of gaps between songs? It really annoying to listen to a mix cd rip and have gaps between tracks. And do you have SB Audigy by any chance? The driver linux driver I have for it sounds like crap compared to the windows one. If I can find a decent driver for it, Linux would be my default OS. (I'm using Mandrake 10.1 btw, and switching to another distro once I'm familiar enough with linux)

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Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
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Yes, it's xmms. Try the xmms-crossfade plugin - it has a "gapless" mode, which works as you expect it to. My sound card is a SB Live, so I can't help you there.

What's the spellcheck plugin you have? Seems interesting I want somethink like they have in evolotion or gaim when writing in forms in firefox, shouldn't be that hard to fix but I haven't found anything that works yet...

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z Tranceaholic, is that xmms? EDIT: Uhh.. oops.. nevermind. How did you get rid of gaps between songs? It really annoying to listen to a mix cd rip and have gaps between tracks. And do you have SB Audigy by any chance? The driver linux driver I have for it sounds like crap compared to the windows one. If I can find a decent driver for it, Linux would be my default OS. (I'm using Mandrake 10.1 btw, and switching to another distro once I'm familiar enough with linux)

Which driver do you use for it? If you check the alsa webpage it seems like their are some special drivers for the Audigy one:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-do...ive_Labs#matrix

@ Trancaholic: Thanks for the plugin.

@ St_Andrew: I'll have to reboot and run linux to find out (it was one of the really standard ones suggested that comes prepackaged with the Mandrake DVD download, not that that really helps much ). Thanks for the link.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

I have the Soundblaster Audigy 2, using the latest alsa driver and it works perfectly. I haven't setup the IR remote control, but I never use it to begin with, besides that, it works great.

Here's a screenshot of the driver in action (I have all the options enabled, that's why there's so many sliders).

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Originally posted by St_Andrew What's the spellcheck plugin you have? Seems interesting I want somethink like they have in evolotion or gaim when writing in forms in firefox, shouldn't be that hard to fix but I haven't found anything that works yet...

It's the RiteOfTongue extension. Other essential ones for forum posting are BBCode (select text, right-click and insert tags to format it - like in an editor) and Smiley Xtra (insert ).

For general browsing, I've also come to rely on the following:
AdBlock (right-click the annoying ad and it's gone for good),
antipagination (start fetching search results while you browse the current page),
Context Search (select text and search it in google, discogs, wikipedia, whatever),
Copy Plain Text (just the text - not the formatting and pictures),
Linkification (convert text designating URLs into clickable links),
Paste and Go (go directly to the URL that's in your clipboard),
easyGestures (fast mouse gestures for closing current tab, searching, switching to another tab etc.), and
undoclosetab (for those doh-moments).

I Firefox.

@ St_Andrew:

Driver
Module: snd-emu10k1

EDIT: I have an SB Audigy Gamer (although I don't think that makes a difference, since all SB Audigys were the same card budled with different software and hardware (external drive))

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller