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Here you will find links that are mostly related to open source software for artists and musicians.
Also some software projects of my own.
My Software Projects
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| Alexadre Prokoudine's provocative Libre Graphics World | libregraphicsworld.org/ |
| Libre Graphics Meeting the fabulous yearly meeting for all things open source graphics software |
libregraphicsmeeting.org/ |
| I think this one is about linux for artists, but it's all in French, which I can't read |
linuxgraphic.org |
| Fedora's design focused distribution | spins.fedoraproject.org/design/ |
| Desktop Publishing | |
| Lyx | www.lyx.org/ |
| TeX (linux package, includes Metafont and Metapost) | www.tug.org/teTeX |
| Scribus | www.scribus.net |
| Laidout (my own software!) | www.laidout.org |
| Open Office | www.openoffice.org |
| Passepartout (code is aging a bit) | www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout |
| Graphics | |
| Mypaint (painting and sketching) | mypaint.intilinux.com/ |
| FontForge (font design) | fontforge.org |
| Synfig (animation) | www.synfig.com |
| Krita (image editing/painting) | www.krita.org |
| Inkscape, svg editor | www.inkscape.org |
| The Gnu Image Manipulation Program (Gimp) | www.gimp.org |
| GraphicsMagick image utilities | www.graphicsmagick.org |
| Imagemagick image utilities | www.imagemagick.org |
| Cinepaint (movie frame editor) | www.cinepaint.org |
| Sk1 | sk1project.org/ |
| qcad | www.qcad.org |
| dia (fancy diagrams) | projects.gnome.org/dia/ |
| Generic Mapping Tools | gmt.soest.hawaii.edu |
| Music and Sound | |
| Lots of links for this sort of thing |
www.linux-sound.org |
| Lots of sheet music | www.mutopiaproject.org |
| Lilypond, music layout system | www.lilypond.org |
| Denemo, a graphic front for Lilypond | www.denemo.org/ |
| Lmms, sound synthesizer | lmms.sourceforge.net |
| Rosegarden, great midi sequencer and more, you'll need probably Fluidsynth and Jack |
www.rosegardenmusic.com |
| Hydrogen drum machine, uses jack | www.hydrogen-music.org |
| Fluidsynth, kind of a sound font backend | www.fluidsynth.org |
| Jack, versatile sound management backend | jackaudio.org |
| Music Hardware Reviews | |
| Harmony Central | www.harmony-central.com |
| Video Editing Video editing under Linux is still something of a wild frontier land at the moment (May 2013). This means that often you will want to use the latest source for the projects below, which will minimize the frustration resulting from bizarre bugs that don't seem to have any workaround. Year by year, things improve, but there are still many bottlenecks!! | |
| Synfig (2d animation) | www.synfig.com |
| Tupi (2d animation) | www.maefloresta.com/ |
| Blender, 3-d modeler including video sequencer with ffmpeg support | blender.org |
| MPlayer and Mencoder | www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage |
| ffmpeg, command line video+audio stream convertor | ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu |
| Avidemux, your basic, simple editor | avidemux.sourceforge.net |
| Kino, another basic, simple editor | www.kinodv.org |
| Kdenlive, promising new editor, multi track video and audio | kdenlive.org |
| Cinepaint, mainly for touching up frames | cinepaint.sourceforge.net |
| Recordmydesktop, for making video tutorials! | recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net |
| Linux Movies Group (hollywood linux use!) | www.linuxmovies.org |
| Lots of linux video links | yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialVideo.html |
| Math | |
| Yacas | yacas.sourceforge.net |
| Octave | www.octave.org |
| GnuPlot | www.gnuplot.info |
| Metapost | www.tug.org/metapost.html |
| Other | |
| Project Gutenberg putting old books online |
gutenberg.net |
| Astronomy | |
| Stellarium, very nice, planetarium-like | www.stellarium.org |
| Celestia, space flight simulator | www.shatters.net/celestia |
| Xephem (star charting) | www.clearskyinstitute.com |
| Some flavors of Linux | |
| Debian | www.debian.org |
| Fedora | fedoraproject.org/ |
| Knoppix | www.knoppix.org |
| Ubuntu | www.ubuntulinux.org |
Various Hardware Compatibility Links | |
| Can your scanner scan? | www.sane-project.org |
| Digital Camera stuff | gphoto.sourceforge.net |
Various Linux Links | |
| The Free Software Foundation | www.fsf.org |
| The GNU project | www.gnu.org |
| Freegeek Computer Recyclers where you can get a computer by volunteering |
www.freegeek.org |
| Openbox Window Manager | openbox.org/ |
Lots of software www.sourceforge.net www.github.com www.linux.org www.freecode.com |
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