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Mediainlinux: Path Forward? 65
Marco Ghirlanda writes "There is an Italian Public founded Research and Technology Park -- the Virtual Reality & Multi Media Park which is hosting a Hollywood-like film studio, the Lumiq Studios The Lumiq Studios and is investing a lot of resources in creating a Debian based multimedia distribution, Mediainlinux wich is basically two lines of Linux Live CD, one based on Knoppix and one made from scratch (Mediainlinux 3) for 2D, 3D, Audio and Video pre and post production. ML needs testing outside our production environment and our school. "
Re:Another distro? (Score:4, Insightful)
Funny, for linux apparently being a non-viable desktop alternative OS, I've never had any issues. I've used Mandrake, Redhat (and fedora), a couple debian-based distros, and most recently settled onto Gentoo because it fits my needs. That's kind of my point, though, is that for anyone who has researched what they want in an OS, they can choose the distribution that meets their needs instead of their OS telling them what they want and need. That, honestly, is my sole reason for running linux instead of Windows.
I hate seeing posts like this because it just shows the ignorance of the average computer user. Linux is indeed a very strong desktop alternative to Windows, but unless the user knows exactly what he/she wants out of it, they probably won't be happy with it.
Oh, and in response to the post that said "Which is simpler, typing apt-get or emerge, or double clicking an icon that says 'Setup'?" I would like to say that for me, and for more than a few people I know of, a command like 'emerge' or 'apt-get' makes a lot more sense to us than double-clicking an icon that for all we know could be installing a trojan horse along with the software we want.
Re:Another distro? (Score:2, Insightful)
Obligatory car analogy: This is like a waterhose at the gas station compared to a free, always-available travelling car-detailer.
For those that feel the need to a single file install like that, Slackware, Debian and others
Re:Another distro? (Score:1)
- I love Linux, but IMO, OP does have a point. I recently switched my notebook to Kubuntu. Boy was I in for a suprise. 3 year old Presario 905 US, cardbus D-Link wireless.
I installed the OS, no problemo. Well other than wireless not working. After toying around, I noticed the GUI won't let me change the wireless parameters. Some weird bug, asks me for my pw (sudo), nothing happens. All right, let's do it manuall
Re:Another distro? (Score:1, Insightful)
- Browse web.
- Play my MP3s.
- Play my ripped DVDs (video files).
Now, I believe you. Because we refurbish pc's, load
new licencesed copies of Windows, and give them to
deserving people. It is very rare to have
a
Re:Another distro? (Score:1)
Totally disagree (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Another distro? (Score:2)
ttyl
Farrell
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:2)
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:3, Insightful)
It's called choice, and I'm all for it.
Just ignore him (Score:1)
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:1)
"Linux zealots, dump core, some obscure web address, segfault, Oh God, Windoze, some lamer friend, God, what a fucking mess! 3 minutes to copy everything, reboot the fucking computer! Jesus Christ! What a retarded operating system!"
Oh Dear!
Ever heard of the "Blue Screen of Death?" Remember? Jog yer memories? Ctrl-Alt-Del? etc^n
You are of course correct, M$ can run Quake well... and makes a good graphics platform, and a word processor,
Linux on the other hand...
Anyway,
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:1)
I however think that the specific flavour mentioned to be used as a hybrid base system (Knoppix) is actualy quite a user friendly system compaired to others, the GUI is clean and inviting, the instructions to start of in the correct direction to su and such are self explanitory if one takes the time to read the text enclosed. Admitedly running that particular distro directly from a hdd is not so straight forward and is sl
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:3, Insightful)
This is sadly all true, I guess, although I haven't tried it. Quake is an old game, and linux isn't as binary backwards compatible as windows.
Before you run the inst
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:1)
You'r
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:2)
> non-free software.
Why do you say that? It is equally easy to package proprietary software as it package Free stuff. The only difference is proprietary vendors would keep the
Re:I guess I just don't 'get' linux (Score:2)
Google for some sentences, you will quickly find it even on old Slashdot discussions.
So that you're not fooled next time
PARENT IS AN OLD TROLL (Score:2)
Blender? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Blender? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Blender? (Score:1)
Re:Blender? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Linux requires a great number of distributions (Score:2)
Re:Linux requires a great number of distributions (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux requires a great number of distributions (Score:1)
Not only that, there are multiple versions of Windows with unclear purposes. Vista will have 7 versions, I think. Customising the Windows installer is pretty difficult too, moreso than any Linux distro installers I've customised... and the base WinXP install is a lo
Re:Linux requires a great number of distributions (Score:2)
Copy the CD to your HD and you can tweak the hell out of Windows, integrate drivers (no more "press F6 for SCSI drivers"), remove extraneous crap, etc etc etc.
I've tried out a few and found that for me, nLite is nice. YMMV, but here's a walkthrough guide to using the prog (not that it isn't fairly self-explanatory)
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Guides/ windowscustomization1/ [neoseeker.com]
FYI- There are other unoff
Re:Linux requires a great number of distributions (Score:1)
Rubbish and contrariwise (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Rubbish and contrariwise (Score:1, Interesting)
Like Mr. Marco, I am creating a Debian version of a MultiMedia based OS-- only with a more Amateur Radio & Black-Hat-Hacker centric theme.
So your point struck home with me recently, when I realized that I do not have to cram everything on one version (nor is it possible/feasable).
Mr. Marco offered to include some of my selections, which I was very honoured..
I am sure I will be working with kind and thoughtful people like him in the future :)
-- Firmly entrenched at the bottom of 'Bad Karma', now
Re:Linux requires a great number of distributions (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Linux requires a great number of distributions (Score:1)
Yes, because it could everytime like average was in future.
Missing Blender? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Missing Blender? (Score:2)
gee maybe i can help (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Missing Blender? (Score:2)
under the link software where the website claims to list all included software, a number of software items are missing. So either the section is incomplete or out of date, or perhaps a mistranslation or other meaning.
My apologies for the confusion.
Step one: start with a centrist name (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Step one: start with a centrist name (Score:1)
The Power Of Being The Default Choice (Score:2, Interesting)
Every new computing device I come into contact with these days is running some version of Linux that the manufacturer has included. Linux has become so ingrained as the default choice that new devices I come into contact with rarely even mention what OS is running on the thing - of course it's got Linux running on it...
It is funny
What is the point? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:What about dynebolic? (Score:2, Interesting)
From the website: "dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognized most device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb and more; all using only free software!"
It's a distro based on debian too (if i remember correctly) and one of the core de
ccrma? (Score:1, Insightful)
I don't object in the least to anyone making a new distribution of BSD or Linux, but realistically if you're going to do so... differentiate yourself somehow. At the very least, don't be a bad imitation of another setup.
I have to wonder if these people even bothered to research existing resources.
Let me be the first... (Score:1, Redundant)
Its just not hardware vendor friendly. Because hardware vendors don't like to make drivers for us.. Its the hardware vendors and the Music industry trying to smash Linux.
As for the Package Management issues. I can just click setup under Linux, its called rpmdrake or synaptic. I click the RPM under KDE, and either Synaaptic or Rpmdrake launches.
I don't know
They Forgot Blender (Score:1)
They forgot Poland! (Score:2)
Re:They forgot Poland! (Score:2)
Re:They Forgot Blender (Score:4, Informative)
3d list (Score:2)
Didnt try the disk myself, was just commenting after reading their 'contents' pages.
flash required (Score:1)
since I do not have (or want) a Flash plugin.
So, nothing for me to see there, I move along.
Some clarifications: (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Some clarifications: (Score:1)
Wot? No Bittorrent? (Score:1)