This page was created with free/open source software based on the GNU/Linux operating system. Feel free to copy and/or distribute it non-commercially, so long as my work is credited to Barton Bosch, and any alterations to the respective author. The screenshots are taken from audio work done with Audacity, a free/open source digital recording and editing utility. Check it: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ The images were edited with The GIMP, a free/open source digital image manipulation package. http://www.gimp.org/ And this lo-tech web page was written with Quanta-Plus a free/open source web development environment. http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ Why free/open source software? Empowerment, liberty, economics, configurability, responsiveness -- for the common good. From the open source intiative home page: http://www.opensource.org/ "The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing. We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits." You can test drive GNU/Linux with Knoppix (one of the many flavors of the OS) -- this distro can run entirely from a CDROM without installing anything on your hard drive or affecting your current operating system. http://www.knoppix.org/ Strangers to GNU/Linux who are interested in professional quality audio should check out Planet CCRMA, a pro-audio optimized sub-distribution which is based on Red Hat Linux. http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrm a/software/
Forward ever, backward never! Enjoy the tunes.
Barton Bosch
"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain." -- Nesta Marley "Trenchtown Rock" "I want to know what is going on on the inside, I want to know, I've got to know." -- Winston Rodney, The Burning Spear "The World Should Know" Questions and comments to: frwrdevr~~~aht~~~yahoodotcom