[PlanetCCRMA] PlanetCCRMA *not* in the press

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sun Aug 5 11:34:03 2007


On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 21:37 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> After reading the list of distros in that article (got the link from
> yourpost at the Ardour list) I wondered the same thing: how come
> Planet CCRMA is not here when is the most exhaustive and up to date
> Linux Audio application repository? Also with one very hard working
> maintainer behind.

Thanks for the kind words. 

As to why, I don't know. Planet CCRMA used to be mentioned when there
were articles about music and linux, I'll have to have a serious talk
with my Marketing Department Leader! :-)

(I do have my own theories, of course :-)
-- Fernando

> 
> Hector

> On 8/4/07, Stephan Neuhaus <sten@artdecode.de> wrote:
>         Dear list,
>         
>         Spiegel Online, one of Germany's most-read online magazines,
>         has a brief
>         article about making music under Linux.  See
>         http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,497951,00.html
>         
>         Right at the top of the article, it says that "Linux users
>         have the
>         choice between at least five current distributions geared
>         specially
>         processing audio: 64 Studio, Dynabolic, Jacklab, Musix, and
>         Ubuntu 
>         Studio." (my translation).
>         
>         There is no mention of PlanetCCRMA in the article.  This
>         suggests that
>         it keeps a slightly low profile among music
>         distributions.  This may be
>         deliberate; it just astonished me since I have been using
>         PlanetCCRMA 
>         for so long :-)
>         
>         Anyway, have fun and keep up the good work,
>         
>         Stephan
>         
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