Linux OS and Everything Else

I found an interesting website tonight called SocialSpark at http://socialspark.com/
The sites claims to bring together bloggers, advertisers, and social networking which sounds like a great
concept to me. I signed up immediately , let’s see what goes down.
Also, in the name of social networking - if anyone is interested in music collaborations of the strange kind
see www.mudballrecords.com then leave me a reply here. I have ideas for new projects but would be better if I had others involved.

I have been experimenting and installing every form of linux you could imagine from the latest Suse (SLED) , Pioneer, Puppy, and more - I cannot find a distro that has everything I need in enough ways to give up my Windows XP. That has been my search and still I am at a loss. I was pleased when I got Reaper to work under wine only to have it crash and make my screen go dark. I have recently settled on Xandros 3.0 community edition - this does not replace XP it is only in addition to it. I do say this is a very solid linux distribution , it comes with most apps that I need - my only tests were - does my internet, sound, and streaming radio via shoutcast work - they did so for now this is what I am going with but sadly still using Windows XP for most of my actual work. I am in Xandros using Firefox as I type this but then I will be going to my XP machine to do my actual work. My main gripe is there are no good multitrack music editors like Reaper, Acid, or Magix Music Maker in Linux - there are applications that do these types of things but they are too hard to use and many of them rely on something called Jack that for some reason always gives me major headaches when I try to make it work. Will somebody please make a good multitrack music application for linux that is easy to use!

Mudball Records is now officially an ogg vorbis music website. As of today I have finished replacing every mp3 file with an ogg vorbis file. I also gave the main graphic a new look and added some new links. Check out the new website at mudballrecords.com

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