OSS
If you've read this blog for any length of time you realize that I enjoy open source software. Working at Novell and being involved with SLED 10 I'm a fan. What I've found with OSS is that the more platforms they port the software to, the better the overall product is.
Initial software written for Linux tends to do what it was made to do, but not much else can be said for it. The interfaces are usually clunky and it is devoid of eye candy. When the developers port that software to Windows you end up getting a much nicer user interface and it becomes more intuitive. Then the port to OSX comes up and that's when the software goes from being 85% done to 95% done. OSX users tend to want the eye candy, the nice little things that makes the software really, really good.
A perfect example of that is Open Office. When it first came out for only Linux, it was a fairly geeky interface. The port to Windows made the UI much better, then OSX port gave us eye candy.
Recently I've been hoping for a decent sound editing tool that is open source. I found a couple of them for only Windows or only Linux and the interfaces on both of them really clunked. Hard to work out, many steps that should have been automated and just painful. It made it difficult to edit Pastor Dean's podcast as well as the Weekly Message podcast.
Until now!
Audacity is fantastic! This chunk of software does a lot of what the closed source stuff does. It's interface is slick and it makes my work much easier. I'm super happy with Audacity and it's ported to Windows, Linux and OSX.
Initial software written for Linux tends to do what it was made to do, but not much else can be said for it. The interfaces are usually clunky and it is devoid of eye candy. When the developers port that software to Windows you end up getting a much nicer user interface and it becomes more intuitive. Then the port to OSX comes up and that's when the software goes from being 85% done to 95% done. OSX users tend to want the eye candy, the nice little things that makes the software really, really good.
A perfect example of that is Open Office. When it first came out for only Linux, it was a fairly geeky interface. The port to Windows made the UI much better, then OSX port gave us eye candy.
Recently I've been hoping for a decent sound editing tool that is open source. I found a couple of them for only Windows or only Linux and the interfaces on both of them really clunked. Hard to work out, many steps that should have been automated and just painful. It made it difficult to edit Pastor Dean's podcast as well as the Weekly Message podcast.
Until now!
Audacity is fantastic! This chunk of software does a lot of what the closed source stuff does. It's interface is slick and it makes my work much easier. I'm super happy with Audacity and it's ported to Windows, Linux and OSX.
posted by Pastor Tom at 9:25 AM
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