A Linux Day of Gratitude
I was toiling into the night on my studio computer (which is a dedicated machine for audio recording and managing digital photos) and I had one of those "wow, this is really excellent" moments. It's an average PC that runs Kubuntu 8.04LTS with special tweaks for audio production: a real-time kernel, the JACK low-latency sound server, and special libraries like FFmpeg and LAME.
I'm writing a book on doing audio production with Audacity and Audacity, like much of FOSS, is a moving target. Kubuntu 8.04LTS has only Audacity 1.3.4, and I wanted 1.3.7 because it includes a wonderful feature that I want for myself and for the book: an integrated FFmpeg exporter.
There are a couple of ways to get Audacity 1.3.4. I could grab the source tarball and build from sources. I could look for a backport. I could install a different Linux version that has it.
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