Musix
Encyclopedia
Musix GNU/Linux is a live CD and DVD
Linux distribution
for the IA-32
processor family based on Debian
. It contains a collection of software for audio production
, graphic design
, video editing
and general purpose applications. The initiator and co-director of the project is Marcos Germán Guglielmetti.
Musix GNU/Linux is one of the few GNU/Linux distributions recognized by the Free Software Foundation
as being primarily available on sites distributing free software and excluding any non-free information for practical use.
Musix is developed by a team from Argentina
, Spain
, Mexico
and Brazil
. The main language used in development discussion and documentation is Spanish
; however, Musix has a community of users who speak Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
The Live-CD system has more than 1350 software packages and runs directly from the CD/DVD without the need to install anything on the PC. It can be installed on the PC relatively easily if desired in a few minutes, just like Knoppix or Kanotix. The Live-DVD 1.0 R3 test5 has 2279 software packages.
Some of the programs include: Rosegarden
and Ardour
, both for musicians; Inkscape
for vectorial design; GIMP
for manipulation of images; Cinelerra
for video editing and Blender
for 3D animation.
Its desktop is very light (only 18 MB of RAM with X.org), based on IceWM
/ROX-Filer and it has a unique feature: multiple "pinboards" ordered by General Purpose apps, Help, Office, Root/Admin, MIDI, Internet, Graphics, and Audio. The pinboards are arrays of desktop backgrounds and icons.
A small version of the KDE
desktop is installed by default too on the Live-CD version. The Live-DVD has a full KDE version, supporting several languages.
patched Linux-Libre
kernels.
On 2009-05-17 the first Beta version of Musix 2.0 was released.
The final Musix GNU/Linux 2.0 version on CD, DVD and USB will be launched before November 20, 2009 by Daniel Vidal, Suso Comesaña, Carlos Sanchiavedraz, Joseangon and other Musix developers. This version will be presented at the "Palau Firal de Congressos de Tarragona, España" by Suso Comesaña.
One other version is knoppix-based. It is developed by a Brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges and is named "Adriane" or "Musix Brazil". This version is not a fork and is derived from Knoppix 6.1 Adriane. This version is in RC1 stage.
Live CD
A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive...
Linux distribution
Linux distribution
A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications...
for the IA-32
IA-32
IA-32 , also known as x86-32, i386 or x86, is the CISC instruction-set architecture of Intel's most commercially successful microprocessors, and was first implemented in the Intel 80386 as a 32-bit extension of x86 architecture...
processor family based on Debian
Debian
Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...
. It contains a collection of software for audio production
Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
, graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
, video editing
Video editing
The term video editing can refer to:* Linear video editing, using video tape* Non-linear editing system , using computers with video editing software* Offline editing* Online editing...
and general purpose applications. The initiator and co-director of the project is Marcos Germán Guglielmetti.
Musix GNU/Linux is one of the few GNU/Linux distributions recognized by the Free Software Foundation
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software...
as being primarily available on sites distributing free software and excluding any non-free information for practical use.
Musix is developed by a team from Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
and Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. The main language used in development discussion and documentation is Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
; however, Musix has a community of users who speak Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Musix 1.0
The Musix 0.x and 1.0 Rx versions were released from 2005 to 2008, with Musix 1.0 R6 being the last stable Release on DVD and Musix 1.0 R2R5 the last stable release on CD.The Live-CD system has more than 1350 software packages and runs directly from the CD/DVD without the need to install anything on the PC. It can be installed on the PC relatively easily if desired in a few minutes, just like Knoppix or Kanotix. The Live-DVD 1.0 R3 test5 has 2279 software packages.
Some of the programs include: Rosegarden
Rosegarden
Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and QT4. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool...
and Ardour
Ardour (audio processor)
Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit...
, both for musicians; Inkscape
Inkscape
Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
for vectorial design; GIMP
GIMP
GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
for manipulation of images; Cinelerra
Cinelerra
Cinelerra is prosumer video editing software. It is designed for the GNU/Linux operating system. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, and is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License...
for video editing and Blender
Blender (software)
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011...
for 3D animation.
Its desktop is very light (only 18 MB of RAM with X.org), based on IceWM
IceWM
IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure, written by Marko Maček. It was coded from scratch in C++ and is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License...
/ROX-Filer and it has a unique feature: multiple "pinboards" ordered by General Purpose apps, Help, Office, Root/Admin, MIDI, Internet, Graphics, and Audio. The pinboards are arrays of desktop backgrounds and icons.
A small version of the KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
desktop is installed by default too on the Live-CD version. The Live-DVD has a full KDE version, supporting several languages.
Musix 2.0
Musix 2.0 is being developed using the live-helper scripts from the Debian-Live project. The first Alpha version of Musix 2.0 was released on 2009-03-25 including two realtimeReal-time operating system
A real-time operating system is an operating system intended to serve real-time application requests.A key characteristic of a RTOS is the level of its consistency concerning the amount of time it takes to accept and complete an application's task; the variability is jitter...
patched Linux-Libre
Linux-libre
Linux-libre is a project that aims to publish and maintain modified versions of the Linux kernel that include only free software. This is accomplished by removing software modules without included source code , obfuscated code or portions of code under proprietary licenses.This project is endorsed...
kernels.
On 2009-05-17 the first Beta version of Musix 2.0 was released.
The final Musix GNU/Linux 2.0 version on CD, DVD and USB will be launched before November 20, 2009 by Daniel Vidal, Suso Comesaña, Carlos Sanchiavedraz, Joseangon and other Musix developers. This version will be presented at the "Palau Firal de Congressos de Tarragona, España" by Suso Comesaña.
One other version is knoppix-based. It is developed by a Brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges and is named "Adriane" or "Musix Brazil". This version is not a fork and is derived from Knoppix 6.1 Adriane. This version is in RC1 stage.
See also
- List of GNU/Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation
- AGNULA
- dyne:bolicDyne:bolicdyne:bolic is a Live CD/DVD based on the Linux kernel with a focus on multimedia production, and is distributed with a large assortment of applications for audio and video manipulation...