Professional DAW ‘Studio One’ is Now on Linux (Public Beta)
PreSonus has made Studio One, their powerful digital audio workstation, available on Linux for the very first time! Studio One is a (closed-source) all-in-one DAW that lets you create music from scratch using virtual instruments, loops, and composer tools; capture audio from connected instruments and other audio equipment; and mix, master, and export compositions to professional standards. It offers a fully-featured multi multitrack recording and editing environment where you can record, arrange, and edit row after row of audio and MIDI tracks; and use advanced automation, effect chains, and plugins to sculpt, manipulate, and play round with how ‘sound’ sounds. […]
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Posted on 2 October 2023 | 8:38 pm
If you’ve had issues getting Linux Mint 21.2 to run well on your laptop or PC, a new Edge ISO is available to download. The Linux Mint 21.2 Edge ISO differs from the regular ISO is 2 ways: 1) it ships with a newer Linux kernel (Linux kernel 6.2) and 2) it re-enables support for secure boot. Mint’s website explains the purpose of its these iterated images thusly: “If you cannot boot or install Linux Mint because your hardware is too recent and is not properly detected look for an “Edge” ISO image. This image ships with newer components to […]
Here’s some awesome news: Ubuntu 23.10 will support the Raspberry Pi 5. So if you’re among the hundreds-of-thousands to pre-order a new model you may be pleased — I only say ‘may’ as chances are someone out there won’t be — to know the latest version of Ubuntu will work on it, once released. And with up-to 3x the CPU performance and up-to 5x the GPU performance of the Raspberry Pi 4, the Raspberry Pi 5 is better suited to everyday desktop usage than before. Heck, it can run dual 4K displays at 60Hz. Canonical’s developers had early access to […]
Canonical is enacting manual reviews for all newly registered uploads to its Snap Store following what it describes as a ‘potential security incident’. The company is responding to user reports that a couple of recently published crypto-related snaps were acting in a (likely) malicious manner (the apps in question have since been pulled, are no longer available to install, and dummy updates issued to affected users to replace them). Now, this sounds dodgy, just as any security incident might. But it’s important to note that although Canonical has announced this incident (and taken swift action to ameliorate the situation, much […]
The wait is over: the Raspberry Pi 5 has been officially unveiled! The new model of this super-successful single-board computer has been a long time cooking. The Raspberry Pi 4 was released (aptly) 4 years ago and has sold over 14 million units to day – impressive! But a full-size successor is now coming — and what a successor it is! The Raspberry Pi 5 is said to be 2-3x faster than the Raspberry Pi 4, delivers greatly improved graphics performance, and uses ‘silicon designed in‑house’ by the Raspberry Pi company — a first. Raspberry Pi 5 specs feature a […]
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 is now available to download. This official stable release follows a couple weeks of diligent testing on a beta build. There are no major changes compared to that beta so if you downloaded and installed it you can “upgrade” to the final formation without issue. LMDE 6 is largely identical to the Ubuntu-based version of Linux Mint 21.2. The standard edition comes with the Cinnamon 5.8 desktop environment, touchpad gesture support, resizeable Mint Menu, updated Software Manager, support for HEIF & AVIF images, and more. But the entire distro rides atop of the Debian […]
Reading websites written in other languages is made MUCH easier in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, which rolls out across all supported platforms today. You no longer need to copy and paste text in another language into an online translator to find out what it says as Mozilla Firefox 118 is able to translate websites from one (supported) language to another. This translation feature is super easy to use. Whenever you visit a webpage written in a non-native (per your browser settings) language a dialog appears to ask if you want to translate. If you say yes it goes […]
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A new version of Linux RSS client NewsFlash is out – and newsflash: it’s looking good! I’ve written about this app in detail in the past so I won’t cover its core feature set in this post, except to say: it’s a desktop RSS reader that can sync with various cloud services (including Miniflux, FreshRSS, NewsBlur, and CommaFeed, new in this release) or run locally. Like a great many GTK apps of late, the latest edition of NewsFlash takes full advantage of the adaptive awesome-sauce added in libadwaita 1.4 – the version at the heart of the recent GNOME 45 […]
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