Mediainlinux: Path Forward?

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. "

Blender?

[bezzer]

On the software list, I could see no mention of Blender. The list did seem a little short though, but I believe that if you're going to have a specialised distribution such as this, you need to list all the relevant software packages.

The Power Of Being The Default Choice

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux has quietly and almost completly replaced Microsoft's OSes as The Default Choice for almost the entire range of new computing products and solutions over the past five years.

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 to watch the whole desktop Microsoft vs Linux debates rage on the Net while Microsoft has been effectively sweep off the map for almost the entire range of non-desktop devices.

I do still come into contact with the dwindling number of 'Microsoft guys' out there. It is funny to see their lack of anything to say when they try to get someone to use some version of Windows on a new device and everyone asks them why the hell should we pay money to lock ourselves into a closed source and single vendor system?

Re:What about dynebolic?

[hunte]

http://www.dynebolic.org.nyud.net:8090/ [nyud.net]

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 developers is Jaromil.

Re:Rubbish and contrariwise

[Halvy]

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 I can FINALLY speak my mind..