New computer celebration.

Today is not the happy day that the title of this blog post suggests. Rather, this last Saturday was. My parents and one of my brothers came to visit us. Since my brother and I both recently had our birthdays, an attempt was made at celebrating us. Boy, did that attempt succeed. Up until now I've been using a netbook for all production involved in the multi8it project. No more I say. I got a new laptop!

It's a Toshiba one, pretty cheap, so it's still true to the mission of the multi8it project, which is to show that you don't need expensive stuff to do fun stuff. As I had unpacked the computer I felt sorry for it. Forcibly infected with Microsoft Windows. My netbook runs Ubuntu, simply because of the immense software library that's available. I thought I would take this impending act of liberation as an opportunity to try out a new Linux distro. I chose between Linux Mint and Fedora, and finally decided to go with the latter.

Now, I'm used to sitting on a netbook, but boy it's snappy. Everything is working out of the box. The main obstacle to this point is that Fedora by default uses another package manager, namely yum. I'm used to apt on Ubuntu, but I'm up for the challenge. It's not like it's difficult, it's just different, and the answer is never further away than "man yum".

So why did I choose Fedora? Linux Mint does indeed have a lot preinstalled, both aplication and codec wise. That is part of the problem for me. I don't want a cluttered system. I believe Linux Mint would have a lot of stuff that I'll never use anyway. The mission of the multi8it project is doubly freedom focused, we're looking for both free as in beer and free as in freedom solutions for music production. Since Fedora contains free software only (as far as I know), it's a good place to start.

Now I must admit I'm a total Google junkie. I use Gmail, Google Calendar, Google+, YouTube, Blogger, well... pretty much everything Google. It comes naturally that I also use Google Chrome which is not free software. I hope you'll forgive me for that.

Until next time,
peace!