Good article on Linux audio editing

[mdlbear]

This article at Ars Technica gives a nice little overview of three open-source audio editors: Ardour, Audacity, and snd. It concludes with a few thoughts about why open-source audio apps are different from proprietary ones -- not necessarily better, but different. Along the way it introduces a few other pieces of the Linux audio toolkit.

I personally use and like Audacity, which is also available for Windows and MacOS and is undoubtedly the simplest of the three to get started with. You can download the lot as part of any Debian-based distribution; DeMuDi's live CD would be a good introduction, and I've found Debian testing (Etch) to be as friendly an install as one could wish for (see previous post).