Borasky Research Journal Google+ Page There is quite a bit of activity on the AlgoCompSynth front. As you may know, I’m a SUSE Studio subscriber, and I’m building openSUSE 11.1-based appliances there. One of them is dedicated to AlgoCompSynth, and I expect to make a release in the very near future, as soon as I get the license details on some packages I want to include.
The target bill of materials includes openSUSE 11.1, CSound, Pure Data (pd) and gem, ChucK, Audacity, Rosegarden and Lilypond, and, of course, the Jack Audio Connection Kit and other low-level audio packages. There are also going to be some things that one normally doesn’t associate with music – the R programming language, for example. And the whole development chain – “gcc”, “gfortran”, “git”, kernel source, etc. will also be there.
If the licenses are compatible, it will also include athenaCL and Impro-Visor. I haven’t picked a desktop yet, but I am leaning towards .including KDE4, Gnome and XFCE, with “kdm” as the display manager. It will probably also have both Firefox and Seamonkey browsers; I really don’t want to carry either Evolution or Thunderbird but I do want an email client.
One final note: I have been doing quite a bit of testing with openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8. So far, everything I have tested works fine, but I don’t know when openSUSE 11.2 packages will be in the SUSE Studio repositories, so for the time being, I am sticking with 11.1.
I think I understood the first sentence, but I’m not sure. In any event, keep openSUSEing!