Digital Sound Editing Under Unix?

Jed1Mnd asks: "I have recently set out to find some decent audio manipulation software for Linux, with out that much luck. I have a friend who is currently using CoolEdit on Windows 98SE is running into issue with performance. We are looking at Linux because of the better IO, memory management and support for file systems like xfs. However like I said I am having trouble find a decent replacement for CoolEdit. I was hoping that the Slashdot crowd would know of a product (commercial or non-commercial) that would fit this situation."

The only thing keeping Win2k on my machine...

[flamingweasel]

...is CoolEdit. About a month ago, I tried every Linux sound editor I could find, and nothing that comes close to CoolEdit's functionality exists. The real killer is CoolEdit's really nice multitracking; Audacity comes close, but crashes far too often and lacks sound grouping. Broadcast 2000 looked promising, but is buggy and no longer being developed. Unfortunately, I think it might take another year or so of development before any Free replacement for CoolEdit (or SoundForge or whatever) is ready.