Using Audicity with Ubuntu and PulseAudio
Read this page from the PulseAudio Wiki. It’s one of those really super single pages that solve many problems. May their number increase!
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… by creating an operating system based on their Chrome browser, which would be great for all of us, I think. Details here (MSNBC.com).
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This is an interesting article. I wonder if he’s right. I dislike Microsoft quite a lot, and generally I see this as one more reason. It would be nice, of course, if they became an ally on the patent issue as Shuttleworth suggests. In software patents have definitely become the enemy of innovation.
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I don’t know that there are many people who want this arrangement, but since I’m using it, I thought I’d write a few notes. I use Creative Cloud for book layouts and graphics design for my company, Energion Publications. I have done layout with Scribus, and I intend to post on some of the differences…
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Link: Open Source Alternatives List
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