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smoothmoniker · 12-18-2007, 12:54 PM

I produce a largish podcast (about 15,000 downloads per episode) that kept getting bogged down with shared hosting. So, this summer, I decided to switch to a Virtual Private Server (check out slicehost.com, by the way. nothing but good things to say) running Debian. It was my first adventure into Linux, and I'm loving it. Since then, I've gained a working knowledge of:

WordPress
Apache
MySql
dovecot
postfix
bash shell scripting (love love love!)

At home and in the studio, it's all Mac and the time. I'm on Logic 8 and Protools for several hours each day.

Undertoad · 12-18-2007, 03:47 PM

They say the Linux audio tools are coming on strong. I'm curious, ever try Ardour? There's a Mac version.

smoothmoniker · 12-18-2007, 04:05 PM

The linux audio tools are still a long, long way from being professionally viable. They're great for doing tweaky, loop-based dance production (which makes sense, given the proclivities of the people who contribute to open-source), but it's not capable of doing the things that would put it in production-class software.

Undertoad · 12-19-2007, 01:45 AM

Don't play a game with the thread by withholding your secret agendas.

It's simply poor form, poor communications and sends the wrong signals to your readers.

12-18-2007, 12:54 PM	#1
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	I produce a largish podcast (about 15,000 downloads per episode) that kept getting bogged down with shared hosting. So, this summer, I decided to switch to a Virtual Private Server (check out slicehost.com, by the way. nothing but good things to say) running Debian. It was my first adventure into Linux, and I'm loving it. Since then, I've gained a working knowledge of: WordPress Apache MySql dovecot postfix bash shell scripting (love love love!) At home and in the studio, it's all Mac and the time. I'm on Logic 8 and Protools for several hours each day. __________________ to live and die in LA

12-18-2007, 04:05 PM	#3
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	The linux audio tools are still a long, long way from being professionally viable. They're great for doing tweaky, loop-based dance production (which makes sense, given the proclivities of the people who contribute to open-source), but it's not capable of doing the things that would put it in production-class software. __________________ to live and die in LA

12-18-2007, 03:47 PM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	They say the Linux audio tools are coming on strong. I'm curious, ever try Ardour? There's a Mac version.

12-19-2007, 01:45 AM	#4
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Don't play a game with the thread by withholding your secret agendas. It's simply poor form, poor communications and sends the wrong signals to your readers.

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