Gentoo rocks

barmalini · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: Gentoo rocks

We all know that Gentoo rocks.
And here is the link http://www.misadigital.com/to see how it exactly does it.
Do you know any other cool/useful/interesting projects outside of the computer world that use Gentoo?
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject:

simply amazing !

I always had liked "electronic" guitars - but this one tops it off

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nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1381 Location: SoCal

That is freaking RAD.

This is the direction that overpriced Roland synth guitar should have gone.

Actually, the Misa seems rather Chapman Stick-like in terms of playing, since you're not strumming, but tapping. 'Course, the Misa can do things that aren't possible on the Stick.

All hail, Gentoo!
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mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3140

As a guitarist of many years, I can say that I never expected to see a Linux (yet alone Gentoo) powered guitar :lol:

I wish the sound quality in the video was a bit better... it's a bit muddy.

Koala Kid · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 376

LOL... it runs Gentoo :lol:

http://www.misadigital.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2eiP12hQQY
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nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1381 Location: SoCal

I interviewed the instrument's creator and posted it to the front page of gentoo.org.

Actually, as far as I know, I was the first to get the story and interview, but I went out of town for a few days immediately after, so some PC magazine or another got something up before me. Dangit.

Ah, well. Hope you enjoy the interview.
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pjp · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject:

Guitarthesizer at its best.

Cool, but I think it'd have to sound better than that than to get a hit (or maybe it just needs a more "adapted" player)?
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slycordinator · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:03 am Post subject:

I concur. I think the thing sounds like utter shit. Hopefully for the inventor that's just him choosing a bad tone and that it can do many, better ones.
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nixnut · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject:

merged some posts above
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:09 pm Post subject:

XavierMiller · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:01 pm Post subject:

Yep, this is only a MIDI controller, like the Guitar of Guitar Hero/Rock Band : it sends notes, the sound comes from a MIDI generator (software / synthesizer / rack / ...).
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amightywind · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:51 pm Post subject: Gentoo on PC-104 Geode

I have recently built Gentoo to run on an Ampro Geode PC-104 board for a CAN automation project at my company. There are a few issues. The Gentoo base install is way too large! The Gentoo portage installation requires about 4 GB of disk storage. This is really silly if you are only building a minimal base system without graphics. I ended up building on 8GB media and giving /usr/portage its own partition, and unmerged unneeded packages. I got things down to about 0.5GB. I did leave the GNU toolchain on, and that is kind of big. Then I used partimage to copy a minimal /usr to more modest flash media. The other issue is that Gentoo scripts poorly without a real time clock. This is understandable since most PC's have one. A PC mobo usually has a battery backed clock to keep time. Embedded systems often do not. Gentoo init pukes messages complaining about this, but the system manages to boot up. All in all I think Gentoo is a better option than Linux from scratch. Portage is very nice.
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