Musix GNU+Linux is a discontinued live CD and DVD Linux distribution for the

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processor family based on Debian. It contained a collection of software for

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, graphic design,

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and general purpose applications. The initiator and co-director of the project was Marcos Germán Guglielmetti. Musix GNU+Linux was one of the few Linux distributions recognized by the

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as being composed completely of free software. Musix was developed by a team from

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and

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. The main language used in development discussion and documentation was

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; however, Musix had a community of users who speak Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

Software

Musix 1.0

The Musix 0.x and 1.0 Rx versions were released between 2005 and 2008, with Musix 1.0 R6 being the last stable release on DVD and Musix 1.0 R2R5 the last stable release on CD. The

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system had 1350 software packages. The Live DVD had 2279 software packages. Some of the programs included:

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and Ardour, both for musicians;

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for vectorial design; GIMP for manipulation of images;

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for video editing and

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for 3D animation. Its desktop was very light (only 18 MB of RAM with X.org), based on

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/ ROX-Filer and it had a unique feature: multiple "pinboards" ordered by General Purpose apps, Help, Office, Root/Admin, MIDI, Internet, Graphics, and Audio. The pinboards are arrays of desktop backgrounds and icons. A small version of the

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desktop was included by default on the Live-CD version. The Live-DVD has a full KDE version, supporting several languages.

Musix 2.0

Musix 2.0 was developed using the live-helper scripts from the Debian-Live project. The first Alpha version of Musix 2.0 was released on 25 March 2009 including two

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-patched

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kernels. On 17 May 2009 the first beta version of Musix 2.0 was released.first Beta version of Musix 2.0
/ref> The final Musix GNU+Linux 2.0 version on CD, DVD and USB was released in November 2009 by Daniel Vidal, Suso Comesaña, Carlos Sanchiavedraz, Joseangon and other Musix developers. This version was presented at the "Palau Firal de Congressos de Tarragona, España" by Suso Comesaña. A similar LINUX-version, developed by Brazilian music teacher Gilberto André Borges, was named "Adriane" or "MusixBr". This version was not a fork and was derived from Knoppix 6.1 Adriane.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Musix GNU+Linux Debian-based distributions Free audio software Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media Knoppix Linux media creation distributions Free software only Linux distributions 2008 software Linux distributions

Software

Musix 1.0

Musix 2.0

See also

References

External links