Good idea Edix.

My dream machine would be a knoppix style boot disk that has simple office/network/internet programs, one almighty mother of a midi/audio sequencer, a cubase/cakewalk clone, a sample based step sequencer like fruityloops, and a few wave chopping and recording facilities.

If any linux programmers out there fancy a challenge, please go for it.

I'm surprised there isn't a linux distro dedicated to music production. I guess there are heavy music programmers and heavy linux programmers, but the two don't seem mix.

Edix, I have tried cheesetracker. It's a start, I found it pretty painless to install and comes with all the features you need in a tracker. Best windows equivilent is Modplug tracker. www.modplug.com although I still favour the windows version as it allows you to pick an individual sample from a soundfont, and being primarily midi based, I like to keep organized with soundfonts.

Jazz++ looks like it has a lot of potential, I believe it's anstalled properly, again I didn't need too many dependants to get it working.Unfortunately there is that small case of no midi to worry about.

I'm pretty much limited to two standards, I don't exactly understand them but I'm working on it. I can install .deb (who can't?) I'm having trouble with .rpms... I also can install any tar.gz file that follows a nice simple rule of thumb: ./configure make make install.

If this doesn't work, I add the tar.gz to that special collection folder knoppix supplies us with.... Trash bin.

I wish I had the time to spend reading through manual after manual, but I just don't... hence I'm here.

Anyways, going to bed now, am typing from windows.... I managed two whole days without it lol. Considering I rely heavily on my pc, that's not bad.

Keep Smiling