Re: [linux-audio-dev] testing the waters

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] testing the waters
From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro_AT_CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 21:25:07 EEST


> I couldn't agree more with this, and had been thinking it myself. "Linux
> Audio Distro" has been on my list of pipe dreams for more than a year now.
> I know at least five little studios and one big one that would probably love
> the current state of the art in Linux Audio software, unfinished as it may
> be, but can't get there because one of the barriers to entry is getting
> everything compiled and installed.

Another way around this barrier, of course, is to follow the business model
of companies like Cobalt and TiVo, who make (respectively) server
appliances and consumer products that use Linux as the base OS, but which
perform a single function or set of functions. Given that rack-mounted
units are an acceptable form factor for pro audio, a 2-unit rack mount
that included a nice audio card, a set of targeted applications, and
offered programmability via a web interface, might find a profitable
place on the shelves at Guitar Center. The payback for the Linux
community would be the same sort of payback Linux has gotten from Cobalt
and TiVo and other such companies: bug fixes, contributed drivers, and
perhaps applications as well.

                                                        --john lazzaro

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