Contents

• Preface to this Revision
• Motivation: Computer Music
• Some of the History of Hardware at CCRMA
• Down to specifics: Linux
  • What-is-Linux
  • Open-Source
  • Why-Linux at CCRMA
  • Choices: Why RedHat,... Fedora
  • The Unix Environment
  
  
• Unix-software examples:
  • General use
  • Archiving Commands
  • Communications:
  • Sound-software and CCRMA related:
  • Text-Graphics and Desktop Publishing
  • Shell-printing printing by a shell command
  • SysAd-Commands: system administration commands
  • The-X-Window System
  • Popular-X-window applications at CCRMA
  
  
• GNOME
• KDE
• ALSA
• Applications
  • Terminal “Window”
  • Electronic Mail - email
  • Web Browsing
  • Terminal shell commands
  • Multimedia
  • Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Office Tools
  • Text-Editors
  • Image Manipulation
  • Typesetting
  • Presentation-Applications
  • Music-Typesetting
  • JACK
  • SND
  • Sound-Utilities
  • Sound-Compression
  • Composition Environments
  • MIDI-and-Sound
  • Graphics, vector-based
  • Signal-Processing
  • Development Environment
  • Spelling Checkers
  • Postscript and other Graphic Formats
  • USB External drives and Thumb drives
  • Making-DVDs at CCRMA Workstations
  • Mastering Cd's
  • Coming or untested applications
  
  
• Embedded Systems:
  • AvrLib
  • AVRLib on Wiring and Arduino
  
  
• Hardware:
• The OS-X Linux Connection
  • Fink
  • SND-on-OSX
  • SND-binary-on-OSX
  
  
• USB-MIDI:
• CCRMA-lize your computer
  • Mimic your CCRMA Home Directory
  • PlanetCCRMA-DVD
  • Custom-Linux-Installation
  • After-a-Fedora-Linux Installation
  
  
• Wireless-Tools and Networking with Linux at CCRMA
• Bibliography