[art] Friday night at DIVA

[Brian Gallagher]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 15:33, Ben Barrett wrote:
> I ended up speaking for a minute about Linux/FOSS around 11 or 
> 11:30p.... I showed up late, myself, but enjoyed the event immensely.  I 
> was really happy to see they were already explaining the technical bent 
> of things pretty well; the Creative Commons flash videos are very 
> newbie-friendly.

Guess I cashed-in too early.  I'm shootin for the Mayor's Art Show this
year and thus, will fall into the Salon.  I've been talking art so much,
I figured I'd better make some Fine Art and get in the fray.  This is a
conscious effort to be involved with the local art scene.


> As for music-typesetting, I think Gnu Lillypond is the main package, but 
> there are various frontends... one or more of which *may* allow 
> generation of audio files from it (possibly via MIDI synthesis?)...

I'll look into GNU Lillypond, though I'm sticking to the center of the
distribution stream via RedHat Fedora for reasons outlined, to the
group, years ago.  What do you know, off the top of your head, about
running Adobe PhotoShop 5.5 under WINE?  To clarify: when I ask "what do
you know" I mean have you tried and/or worked out the details of XYZ
program.  Thanks, in advance, for all your help.  I hope to have some
info for you in short order.  Ben, you were so right when you said I
should upgrade from RedHat 8.0!  Things are going so much smoother now. 


> And as for alter-abled linux distro's, I think I remember one of the 
> many Knoppix variants being tuned for exactly such a thing.  T. Joseph 
> Carter is legally blind IIRC and might have some good info on that -- 
> contact me off-list if you don't have his contact info (he's been active 
> in EUGLUG for years now).
 

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