Dear Michael,
It all depends, graphics intensive programs or GUI's in Linux are a bit
scarce and therefore you have to rely upon command lines. However there is
PD (PureData) which works fairly well in either Gnome or KDE. In my
opinion the issue with Linux as we speak is what sort of sound support you
might choose. It is either ALSA or OSS and this might be the source of
most problems for some applications.
Dave Phillips has a very good page http://www.linuxsound.at (and book) on
Linux and Music but I will also encourage you to take a look at the
planetCCRMA web pages at,
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/guides/planetccrma/
and
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
Major algorithmic composition software (clm, cm, stk, cmn, PD, RT, Csound)
runs on Linux to my knowledge including manuscripting programs though they
are not GUI intensive except PD. MIDI sequencing and support are not rated
five star.
-- Juan Reyes
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Michael McGonagle wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Please forgive my cross-post here, but I am trying to find a wide cross
> section of people who are using Linux as their Operating System of
> choice for music. This includes anything from Music Notation,
> Algorithmic Composition, Performance, Sequencing, and/or Synthesis.
>
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