Mute Groups is a new feature in the CVS version of Hydrogen, the drum machine for GNU/Linux. Hydrogen is a great program and a lot of fun to use too. Mute Groups allows you to add 2 or more instruments to the group, say an open hihat and a closed hihat, and a beat on one member of the group mutes all other members of the group, allowing a more realistic, human-sounding rhythm. Fantastic. Future plans for Hydrogen include a simple chord and bassline editor.

I heard about this event recently. Music production, sound recording, Trinity Road (ex-)Church, sounds good.

"FAVE is a community event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. It's taking place on Saturday August 20th 2005 at the Trinity Community & Arts Centre in Bristol, UK." www.fave.org.uk

The Claws site has been redesigned in the style of Planet Sylpheed. It was a long time coming, but now it is there – and not a tooth or toothbrush in sight. It may still need a little tweaking. Next will be updated content.

An image of the old design is included here for the incomplete historian.

Debian is my distro of choice, but it is sometimes a little slow getting new packages – I mean, sometimes you must wait several days for a new release to enter the official repository, (did someone say impatience?). So, for the impatient Claws Debian user, who is not 100% restless, (i.e. doesn't use experimental), we have made packages for SID (unstable) available, (x86 and AMD64).

These packages have been created by Ricardo and are the very same Claws packages that will make it into the official repository. They are Claws 1.9.13 and 1.0.5. An unofficial libetpan 0.38 package has also been created by Ricardo, especially for Claws 1.9.13, this package, however, will not reach the official debian repository as Ricardo is not the libetpan maintainer for Debian.

    deb http://claws.sylpheed.org/debian/ unstable main
    deb-src http://claws.sylpheed.org/debian/ unstable main