[SlugBug] Newbie says Hi

[Bill Best]

kelvin michael wrote:

> Hi everyone
> Apologies for this, but I'm afraid I'm going to ask a rather general 
> question about a rather minority sport: I'm very new to Linux (having  
> run SuSE liveeval for a short time and recently installed Mandrake 
> 9.1). I've  several years  professional experience using  music 
> composing/recording/sequencing applications on Mac and Windows, and 
> purely out of interest (and in the hope I'll learn a great deal more 
> about the os, which seems somewhat inevitable) I intend to install 
> what equivalents exist in the Linux world (Rosegarden,Ardour et al). 
> From what I can gather pro music applications aren't exactly one of 
> Linux' strengths just yet, but it is possible that  in a year or two 
> or three they may well be (hence my real interest).
> Does anyone on this list use such software/know anyone in the Sheff 
> area who does?
> Told you it was a bit minority. I'd be grateful for any replies.
> Thanks
> KM 

Hi Kelvin

I know nothing other than searching for 'music' in the following sites:

http://freshmeat.net/

http://sourceforge.net/

http://www.google.com/linux

Good luck

Bill