Musix GNU+Linux

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Musix GNU+Linux
Software Details:
Version: 3.0.1
Upload Date: 17 Feb 15
Developer: Musix Linux Team
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 413

Rating: 2.0/5 (Total Votes: 1)

Musix GNU+Linux is an open source Linux-based operating system intended to be used by musicians, graphic designers and video editors, thanks to its huge collection of free and open source audio/video manipulation programs and utilities.

It is based on the highly acclaimed and award winning Debian GNU/Linux operating system and built around the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE). It includes the GNOME and desktop environments, as well as the Openbox and Fluxbox window managers.

Features at a glance


With this distribution you will be able to master CDs, publish musical scores, print musical scores, create MIDI instruments, record and reproduce audio and MIDI tracks, edit and mix audio or MIDI tracks with multitrack sequencers and editors.

In addition, it allows you to perform noise-reduction to recover recordings, use effects in real time with any device (microphone, line, etc.), and connect a keyboard or another MIDI device and control the available software synthesizers.

Distributed as a dual-arch Live DVD


It is distributed as a single Live DVD ISO image, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms. It can be used directly from a live media (USB or DVD) or installed on a local disk drive.

Includes a wide variety of tools for audio processing


Audio production applications include Ardour DAW, Audacious audio player, Audacity audio editor, Bristol vintage synthesizer emulator, FluidSynth real-time MIDI software synthesizer, Guitarix guitar amplifier, as well as Hydrogen drum machine and step sequencer.

Among the included video production apps we have Avidemux video editor, Cinelerra video authoring tool, Kdenlive non-linear video editor, and FFmpeg video encoder. In addition, the Blender 3D graphics and animation software, GIMP image editor, and Inkscape vector-based drawing program are also included.

There are also two web browsers, Iceweasel and Chromium, two office suites, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, gFTP file transfer client, Leafpad text editor, PCManFM file manager, XChat IRC client, and many other applications.

Bottom line


All in all, Musix GNU+Linux is a great and lightweight distribution of Linux specifically designed to be used for audio production, video editing and graphic design tasks, running well on low-end machines and perfect for mid/high-end computers.

What is new in this release:

  • For this version of the installable Live DVD/USB Stable we added some video editors like kdenlive 0.9.6, avidemux and cinelerra, added french and serbian language support, openoffice, solved some minor KDE desktop bugs... Musix 3.0 boots by default in LXDE, but you can choose the tailored KDE and IceWM desktops or the original fluxbox and openbox; os-probe was installed to detect other systems during HD installation. The Kernel 3.4.14-gnu-RT23 is 100% free as well as all software in Musix and operates in real time for audio and music production.

What is new in version 3.0:

  • For this version of the installable Live DVD/USB Stable we added some video editors like kdenlive 0.9.6, avidemux and cinelerra, added french and serbian language support, openoffice, solved some minor KDE desktop bugs... Musix 3.0 boots by default in LXDE, but you can choose the tailored KDE and IceWM desktops or the original fluxbox and openbox; os-probe was installed to detect other systems during HD installation. The Kernel 3.4.14-gnu-RT23 is 100% free as well as all software in Musix and operates in real time for audio and music production.

What is new in version 3.0 RC2:

  • The development team of Musix GNU+Linux is proud to present version 3.0 Release Candidate 2. We didn't found serious bugs, so we corrected the known ones and we think this is a great release. If nothing weird happens in the span of about two weeks, this will be the Musix 3.0 stable that we were all waiting for. Then we will make some improvements for Musix 3.1 (MusixControl running graphically) but there should be minor differences.
  • The installable Live DVD RC2 was released to get reports from users but it's 99.9% a final stable release. We installed some video editors like kdenlive 0.9.6, avidemux and cinelerra, added french and serbian language support, openoffice, solved some minor KDE desktop bugs... Musix 3.0 will boot by default in LXDE, but you can choose the tailored KDE and IceWM desktops or the original fluxbox and openbox; os-probe was installed to detect other systems during HD installation. The Kernel 3.4.14-gnu-RT23 is 100% free as well as all software in Musix and operates in real time for audio and music production.

What is new in version 3.0 RC1:

  • The development team of Musix GNU+Linux is proud to present version 3.0 Release Candidate 1 after 11 months of work since the last version 3.0 Beta, and after 4 years since the last stable version 2.0. The installable Live DVD/USB RC1 was released to get reports from users but it's almost a final release. We updated more than 300 programs from Debian Wheezy, re-installed kde-full, Rakarrack, Jamin, Blender and various other programs for artistic creation. MusixControl works only in terminal. Icewm desktop, KDE and Lxde are tailored to activities (office, audio, MIDI, graphics, etc.) The Kernel 3.4.14-gnu-RT23 is 100% free as well as all software in Musix and operates in real time for audio and music apps.

What is new in version 2.0 Beta 1:

  • This remastered version aims to provide a testing system based on the stable Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 'Lenny'. Several packages were updated, such as the Linux 'libre' kernels 2.6.27 and 2.6.29, which were revised to improve mount actions. It includes new versions of programs for musicians compiled by Spanish guitarist Carlos Pino - Ardor 2.8, jackd 0.116.1, lmms-vst 0.4.4, lv2core 3.0, Qtractor 0.4.1, Rosegarden 1.7.3... As a new addition, we added GNOME to the supported desktops - KDE, LXDE and IceWM + Rox.

What is new in version 2.0 Alpha 2:

  • The Musix GNU/Linux team has released the first Musix 2.0 live DVD which includes a huge list of packages along with several applications for graphic design, audio and music software. English, Spanish, Portuguese and French are fully supported. We have included two new realtime-patched Linux kernels: 2.6.27-free (which replaces the 2.6.26.8-libre2), with new modules and bug fixes, and the 2.6.24.7-rt-libre3 boot option for better hardware compatibility. The 2.6.29.1-libre-rt kernel is included on the DVD but it will work only on installed systems. Desktops: IceWM, LXDE and KDE 3.5.10.

What is new in version 2.0 Alpha 1:

  • Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Musix GNU+Linux 2.0, a Debian-Live stable based distribution containing a large collection of free multimedia applications: "Now you can test the alpha 1 release of Musix GNU/Linux 2.0 based on Debian Lenny and it's great features: a better installer, boot and compression system than Musix 1.0; updated software packages as for instance Ardour 2.7.1-2, jackd 0.109.2-5, Rosegarden 1.7.0, Linux 2.6.26.8-libre2 & 2.6.24-7-libre3 (both realtime patched), Audacity 1.3.5-2+lenny1, Gimp 2.4.7-1, Solfege 3.10.3-1+b1, IceWm 1.2.35-1, etc. We encourage you to test this alpha release so we can get more feedback from the artists worldwide. The Rox-Filer's launchers are not yet fully working, so please just use the IceWM menu."

What is new in version 1.0r6:

  • After three months of testing, the stable release of Musix GNU+Linux live DVD 1.0R6 is out. It's a 100% free operating system for artists focused on music production, graphics design and video editing, based on Debian 'Etch' and KNOPPIX. Some packages were upgraded since Musix live DVD 1.0R4, the knoppix-installer fonts now look good, an old kernel 2.6.16 from Musix 0.99 was added to support old hardware. Also, there are many backports made by the Musix team; we highlight LMMS, Jackd, Mscore, Rosegarden and Ardour. This DVD is used daily in music schools, so we know what teachers and students need.

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