Over the past few weeks of discovering Puppy Linux 5.2.8 (I'm a newbie to Linux still), I have to say that you can get things done albeit maybe a little different than I am used to using my other Distro Ubuntu 10.04.
Every Sunday I host a Jazz radio station at The University of Ottawa, and every Sunday I have recorded my show (and a couple of others), on my Intel 24" iMac. Works great. I decided to try recording with various Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin. They all worked fine.
I decided to take the plunge and try a distro that was not Debian or Ubuntu based. Hence, Puppy Linux 5.2.8. These are the tools I used successfuly on this Sunday afternoon.
- Using the arecord command, I have four scripts in the Pschedule task on time app that work great.
- Audacity is my audio editing app. Also worked great.
- tried gFTP to ftp my shows to my web site. No success with this app using port 22. I installed Filezilla and all is well. Not sure why gFTP didn't work.
- My playsheets are done using Googledocs. No problem there.
So far everything worked fine!
On another note, one thing I still need is a video editor such as Avidemux or something similar that will work in Puppy. Any recomendations other than Avidemux? I just need to save snippets of video quickly. On the Mac side, I use MPEG Streamclip which I absolutely love working with.
My iMac sees limited use now because I find most of my computer time is in the Linux world. Feels like Christmas every day so far!!
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