Linux and Audio Production: Simplicity Required

Jono Bacon has an interesting article on O'Reilly talking about the challenges still facing him as a musician when using GNU/Linux based solutions. If you have an interest in helping improve the Multimedia experience under Linux you should take a look at the article to get some ideas for areas to investigate and work on in order to improve the situation. Many people are interested in sorting out the USB soundcard issue for instance, but nobody has had the resources to take on the coding for it yet.