Free multimedia studio software for linux

LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating/synthesizing sounds, arranging samples, playing live with keyboard and much more...

LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program (pattern-/channel-/ sample-/song-/effect-management) and those of powerful synthesizers and samplers in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface.

Linux MultiMedia Studio project is still in heavy development, so with this version please dont expect a complete, ready and bugfree program!!

With LMMS you can produce electronic music via your computer, so you dont have to buy expensive hardware for having great sounds and making cool music. Of course no software can replace real hardware-synths, but youll have still much fun with LMMS!

LMMS provides software-synths, cool presets for them and also some essential samples. For getting started with LMMS you can take a look at the demo-songs.

Gnome Multimedia Keys is an Amarok script that will allow the use of keyboard multimedia keys in Gnome 2.18 and above (eg. ubuntu feisty) to control playback. This includes most multimedia buttons found on many laptops. Support for this was broken due to changes in the handling of keyboard shortcuts by gnome 2.18.
Currently supported operations are:
- Play/Pause
- Pause
- Stop
- Next Track
- Previous Track
Simply run the script, no configuration of the script itself is required. The desired keyboard shortcuts can be configured by selecting "System-->Prefrences-->Keyboard Shortcuts" from the Gnome panel.

LMMS is a project trying to create a gui for TV that can be used with a gamepad/joystick. In future there shall be various applications for playing audiofiles (Ogg-Vorbis, MP3, WMA, CD etc) and videofiles (DivX, MPEG, DVD, TV etc). Games and other stuff (recording TV etc) are planed too.

For now the whole project is written in python/pygame and there are some applications available:

Menu - for choosing another application
Image-Viewer - as the name says, it will allow you to watch some images
CD-Player - for playing Audio-CDs
Audio-Player - with support for Ogg and MP3

Actually the following gamepads/joysticks are supported:

Gravis Gamepad Pro
Microsofts X-Box pad
Nintendos SNES pad

Mulimidix is a small Linux distribution for building a PC-based set-top box and multimedia player system to use on tv. Currently it supports:
- Digital TV
- Digital TV
- Video and Audio Playback
- Videotext
- DVD Playback and Navigation (Non CSS)
- Audio-CDs
- Network Support (NFS / Samba)
- Image Viewer
- LCD Frontpanel Support
- Remote Control Support
- and many, many more features

GeoVISTA Studio is an open software development environment designed for geospatial data. GeoVistaStudio is a programming-free environment that allows users to quickly build applications for geocomputation and geographic visualization.
One barrier to the uptake of Geocomputation and Geovisualization is there is no system or toolbox that provides easy access to useful functionality. GeoVISTA Studio provides rapid, programming free development of complex applications for:
- data exploration
- knowledge construction
- geocomputation
- visualization
Studio Includes Interactive Query Devices for Exploratory GeoVisualization, 3D Render for complex and sophisticated 3D graphics, 2D mapping and statistical tools.
Studio provides a:
1. Visual Programming-Free Environment for rapid development.
2. Component-Oriented Programming: uses JavaBeans as programming components. Any JavaBeans (developed by 3rd parties) can be plugged in!
3. Recursive Development turns a developed application into a JavaBean component. Developed components (applications) are reusable (scalable), and developed components can be shared by other Studio users and/or java programmers.

StartCom Linux is based on the Red Hat AS source code.
Specially designed for the demanding home user, the MultiMedia Edition lets you easily communicate with your friends and family members over the Internet, browse the news or watching the latest DVD movie you just bought.
Listen to your loved Music while you check your email or play some funny game while you burn a CD, everything is easily accessible from your desktop by a click on your mouse button.
System configuration and adjustments of your preferences never have been so simple, thanks to the integrated configuration tools.
Enhancements:
- StartCom has released its new Multimedia Edition, ML-5.0.5, code named Kessem. Its probably one of the largest and most complete Linux distributions ever released to the public. Release ML-5.0.5, offers many out-of-the-box capabilities, never bundled with an operating system before. Designed as a multimedia workstation with music studio and advanced video editing applications, it also provides the desktop user with the most applications for day to day use.

Aqua Data Studio program is a database query tool and administration tool that allows developers to easily create, edit, and execute SQL scripts, as well as browse and visually modify database structures.
Aqua Data Studio provides an integrated database environment with a single consistent interface to all major relational databases. This allows the database administrator or developer to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously from one application.
Main features:
Query Analyzer/Window
- Aqua Data Studios sophisticated Query Analyzer allows users to work on database scripts with specific RDBMS syntax highlighting and auto-completion to develop and test SQL scripts. Other features to speed up development include SQL automation, auto-describe and sortable multi-grid results. The query analyzer also provides client side variable binding, allowing a user to execute stored procedures or functions with local variables binded to receive out parameters. The query window also provides two modes of operation, using a SplitPane View or a MultiTab View for the editor and the query results.
Schema Browser & Visual Editing
- Its graphical browsing capabilities allow you to understand the structure and dependencies of the database schema with a single mouse click. The schema browser also allows you to visually edit any schema object with a graphical design form to CREATE, ALTER or DROP the object. Visual editing supports Tables, Indexes, Procedures, Data Types and other schema objects. The visual editors also provides an SQL preview of all the commands to be executed to commit the operation.
Schema Extraction & DDL Scripting
- Its graphical browsing allows you to extract the structure definition of all schema objects and to script the SQL DDL and DML (eg CREATE, ALTER, DROP, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) syntax for database schema objects (including Tables, Views, Triggers, Stored Procedures and Functions).
Table Data Editor
- A powerful Table Data Editor allows you to modify your results graphically and save them. By writing a single table SELECT statement in the Query Analyzer and clicking on the Execute Edit button, a separate window is opened with the query results for you to edit and save. You may also browser to a table in the schema browser and select the Edit Table from the popup menu to edit the first 1000 records in a table.
Enhancements:
- Enhancements in this release include OS X Integration, Windows integration, complete and customizable keymapping, a schema difference tool, a directory difference tool, a file difference tool, a tab difference tool, a copy history difference tool, SQL Server DBA tools, and Sybase DBA tools.
- In total, there were over 100 new features.