fieryprophet
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This is pure operating system ownage. . .
<img src=”http://www.fieryprophet.com/three_OSes.jpg” />
That is Ubuntu Linux running Windows XP Pro running Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”
Click here for fullscreen version.
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Brad
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Whoah, that’s extremely trippy. Very nice.
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nedrubwerd
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Where’d you get that GNOME theme? (The only thing I really like out of Vista is the black taskbar style… very spiffy)
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fieryprophet
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It’s the default theme of the Ubuntu Studio derivative of Ubuntu Linux.
Ubuntu Studio is the music/video/art edition of Ubuntu. Brad, you should check it out, Hydrogen and BEAST are terrifically fun programs :)
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Brad
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Huh, I’ve never heard of Ubuntu Studio, I’ll have to give it a shot. I read the other day that EnergyXT is coming out for Linux.
I wonder if Justin could make Reaper work under Linux.
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Brad
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Wow those screenshots for Ubuntu Studio sure look nice.
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fieryprophet
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I love Ubuntu Studio. Besides already having pre-built packages for all of the great Linux creativity apps, the theme looks a lot better than the overblown browns and orange of vanilla Ubuntu.
Check out Virtualbox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) as well, open source virtualization is sweet :)
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Brad
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I never quite got the whole brown and orange thing. I guess it’s “earthy” but it’s not very sexy to me.
So how IS the audio on Ubuntu these days? Anything particularly usable? I don’t even know if it would support my sound card.
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fieryprophet
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As with all things Linux, it’s hit or miss, depending on the friendliness of the hardware maker with the open source community. Creative Labs products are really moving along, however, but I wouldn’t recommend anything specifically for your setup as I don’t do much in the audio department. If you have a free partition to try Studio out in, I’d give it a shot (and delve a lot for info at http://www.ubuntuguide.org/) but don’t do anything that makes your already late album any later ;)
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Brad
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Yeah I already manage to kill a lot of time dinking around with software so probably trying a new OS should wait until later. I do really like Ubuntu, it’s on my media/web devel server in the basement and has been working great. I thought it had croaked on me a while back but it turned out it was the power supply gone wonky.
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nedrubwerd
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I generally shy away from Debian-based distros but I’ll give Ubuntu Studio a shot. (I’m a former and most likely future podcaster, need that audio editing y’know)
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