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NewsForge: An Open Studio to Go

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“Open source software developer and musician Richard Bown wanted
to make Rosegarden, a popular MIDI sequencer for Linux, available
to all people, even if they weren’t fortunate enough to be using an
open source platform. That was the genesis of Studio to Go, a
Knoppix-based CD that allows Windows users to access a wealth of
open source music creation and notation software without installing
Linux.

“Rosegarden started as a project created by Bath University
students Chris Cannam and Andy Green. It was originally written for
the Irix platform, but Bown came along to help with a Linux port.
Green apparently attempted a Windows port about the same time, but
lost the only copy of the source code in a nasty computer
crash…”

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