Linux has always been a great operating system for programmers. Since the late 90s, however, there's been a big push to make Linux more attractive to people that don't have Mountain Dew addictions.

In this article I've selected what I consider to be some of the past year's outstanding achievements in the world of Linux music and sound software. It's not really a "Best Of 2007", it's just my ...

In my last installment of this series I introduced a variety of GUI-based tools that can help you discover more about your system to help identify potentially troublesome components. This week we'll ...

Picture the scene: You’re in your studio, the creative juices flowing liberally and freely, working on what is sure to be the most important moment in the history of music since John turned to Paul ...

Editor's note: This article present one view of the pitfalls that may be experienced when configuring audio codecs under Linux. Results will vary based on systems configuration, library versions, and ...

Is it normal for linux to have horrible sync issues with sound? Generally what I see is sound laging behind motion, and fairly badly. Tuxracer, for instance, is completely borked this way on every box ...

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs. The new version of the ...

Audio systems in Linux are terrible. You’ve never known true pain until you’ve tried to set up a recording or broadcasting workstation running Linux. I did, twenty years ago, and nothing has changed ...

Many Firefox users on Linux were left without the ability to play sound in their browser after updating to Firefox 52, released last week. The issue at the heart of this problem is that Mozilla ...

NEW BERN, N.C.—Wheatstone will introduce a Linux audio driver for its WheatNet IP audio network during the 2025 NAB Show, April 5-9, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The driver, the company’s ...

Audio systems in Linux are terrible. You’ve never known true pain until you’ve tried to set up a recording or broadcasting workstation running Linux. I did, twenty years ago, and nothing has changed ...