configure ubuntu for music creation

This tutorial works on every version of Ubuntu begining from the version 10, with some little details.

Music production on linux is very powerfull, but as many things on linux, it needs some efforts to make it work properly.

With the last versions of ubuntu, the hardware is almost everytime recognized, so you won’t have much problem with that. As well as for the hardware consumption.

I think the best is to install the sound server, and some applications. the rest is a matter of creativity.

Here i explain technically what is needed to begin.

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access amiga FFS Hard Drive (or CF) under ubuntu

Today a simple trick.

It is sometimes needed for us, amigans, to access the internal hard drive (or compact flash) that fits normaly inside our beloved Amiga 1200.

Many articles around the internet speak about accessing it from Win-UAE under Windows, but I did not find many of them speaking about accessing it under Ubuntu.

Fortunately for us, linux include FFS support natively in the kernel. Anyway, it is not automatic, and we have some steps to follow to mount it.

I assume you know how to disconnect the drive from inside your A1200, and how to connect it to your ubuntu box. I will only speak about terminal commands there. Continue reading “access amiga FFS Hard Drive (or CF) under ubuntu”

share over the network between IcAROS and Ubuntu

Introduction :


Sharing files over the network is something like an obligation nowadays.

I personnally don’t like Windows, so I won’t speak about this side. I prefer the dark side : linux, especially ubuntu (here 12.04LTS). Anyway, samba is samba, so it should work with every linux distrib.

As we speak about computering @home, we will stay in a VERY SIMPLE config.

So, we have for this example :

– One machine running IcAros 1.5.2-2

– One machine running Ubuntu 12.04LTS

– let’s assume the ubuntu samba server is called “HADES”,

– in a WORKGROUP  called “PHLEGETON”,

– with the IP adress, let’s assume it is “192.168.173“. Ofcourse, you must change this to fit your ones.

– let’s assume the path to share is “/media/data”

– let’s assume the share name will be “styx”

We also have a local user. Let’s assume it is “jess”. Continue reading “share over the network between IcAROS and Ubuntu”