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Fedora Audio Creation SIG

Hans de Goede has announced the creation of a Fedora Special Interest Group (SIG) dedicated to Audio Creation. The new SIG's initial goal to bring the packages currently in Planet CCRMA into the main Fedora repository.

CCRMA (pronounced "karma") is the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Planet CCRMA is a repository of software packages in RPM format. The CCRMA project was created and is still maintained by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano at Stanford.

The packages in Planet CCRMA were originally developed on Red Hat Linux and later on Fedora. Its packages are available to Fedora users as a third party repository, but there are too many packages to be easily maintained by one person. As a result not all the CCRMA packages have been updated to Fedora 7, much less Fedora 8. CCRMA does have realtime kernels for FC6 and F7 based on 2.6.22.6 and Ingo's 2.6.22.1-rt9 patch, which, along with a good selection of audio applications, seems like a good start for an Audio Creation spin.

Over time some of the CCRMA packages have migrated into the main Fedora repository. The Audio Creation SIG hopes to integrate more of the core Planet CCRMA packages into Fedora and to keep up-to-date any audio related packages that are currently in the Fedora repository.

There are many other audio projects out there. Dave Phillips has compiled a fairly comprehensive (though somewhat out-of-date) list of Linux Audio Bundles, Distributions, and Music Collections. Many projects are distribution specific (or bundled distributions such as 64 Studio and Dyne:bolic). The AGNULA project once had a ReHMuDi branch that was Red Hat Linux based, but that died before Fedora was born. Planet CCRMA is the place for Fedora audio packages and it is a great place to start in turning Fedora into a premiere distribution for audiophiles.

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