[shell-fu:home. Music File Processing on Linux. [ home ] Music File Processing on Linux Music (or audio) files are available in a bewildering array of formats other then than the well-known MP3 format, and as bandwidths and storage capacity keep increasing the lossless compression formats will come increasingly into use, especially by those concerned with maintaining the integrity of the original analog or digital recordings for as long as possible.
This is a guide - designed to be as brief yet complete as possible - to how to convert amongst these formats via the command line on a Linux platform. We'll now briefly cover the gist of the philosophical issues. If you are also interested in maintaining the integrity of the original recordings as they pass through successive generations and hands, then always keep and make available the highest quality version of each recording you obtain.
An autonimic approach to system configuration management. Builder / HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution. As part of creating gNewSense, we created our Builder which allows for the creation of a new GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Hardy.
From a simple config file you can choose the name of your distribution, release, tagline and what packages you'd like to be installed/removed by default. Graphics will be automatically generated.