Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Jun 2002 19:42 UTC
Audacity is a multitrack/recording free audio editor. It started a few years back as a simple sound editor, but since then it has evolved in a powerfull modern editor, by supporting multi-track recording. The stable 1.0 version was released only a few days ago.
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I think the main problem WxWindows has is it's lack of integration with the platforms it runs on. It looks almost like what it should look like, but not quite, and the feel is often all wrong. On linux this is not such a big deal, but on the other platforms people will scream bloody murder for not having exactly the same UI as the rest of the environment.
Someone also noted how linux doesn't have many decent multimedia apps. Well, that's logical, since until recently it was actually nearly impossible to write media apps for linux. It had awful latency, it had poor sound hardware support, it was basically a piece of [deleted] regarding sound support. On top of that, xfree had little or no hardware acceleration and little 3D support, which made writing graphics apps difficult. So you can understand the lack of multimedia on linux. Now, with the gradual move to alsa, the low-latency and the pre-emptiveness patches, and the growing into adulthood of xfree 4.x linux is finally a platform you can actually write media applications for.
As for why the media support was so bad ... Well, to learn how to run you have to first learn how to walk. There were simply more important things to do. Those more important things are done now.