It's a mixed bag this week from Studio Dave. I'll skip the preliminaries and just invite you to dive in and check out some of the latest news from the ever-expanding world of Linux sound and music software. There's far more going on than I can possibly cover in my allotted space, but here's a quick survey of some recent remarkable activity.

LAC 2007

The next Linux Audio Conference will be held at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany, from March 22 through March 25, 2007. I missed last year's conference but I hope to attend and present a demonstration at this one. According to its organizers, the conference "... aims at bringing together developers and users of Linux and open source audio software with the target of information sharing, project discussion and music." Various events have been planned, including public talks and workshops, concerts, and tutorials. Some parts of the conference will be available in live streaming audio/video, and the text presentations will be published as a volume of the conference proceedings. Admission is free for all events except the concerts, so if you're in Berlin during those days you might want to drop in and see/hear what's going on at the cutting edge of Linux audio development and deployment.

Distro Watch

Some time ago I reviewed some of the fine "live" CDs of Linux systems optimimzed for multimedia work. I'm happy to report that those distributions continue to evolve and that their ranks have grown.

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