On Wed February 7 2007, Ric Moore wrote: > Thanks Claude, I just got the CD and shall give it a install whirl. The > blag list is remarkably quiet. The guy who put it together must be doing > a great job. Jeff IS doing a great job, but that's not why the list is quiet. Most of the community interaction occurs on the forum, not on the list - Personally, I hate forums - I like to get those messages in my mailbox, keep them, highlight them, organize them, archive them, search them - they come to me, I don't have to go to them - but, that's me. > Think it'll install to my old PIII or should I just give it > what? A hundred gigs on Big Un? More? Less? It's Fedora 6 with a bit of added pizazz - it has a lot of extra creative content creation packages in its repos, and if you want to play with those, I'd say go with the power - you would far prefer learning Cinelerra on a fast machine, for example. By the way, to get back to the subject line; knowing your video projects you have going, I'm finally getting round to really working with Cinelerra. It's a bit of a struggle to get over the early hurdles, but I'm getting enthused. I've captured a one hour miniDV tape with Kino, and I'm currently working on my first video editing project with totally free software - on this box, it's really nice - I'm running a dual-core 2.66 MHz with 1 GB of ram and SATA drives, and this is a world of difference from my old 2 GHz P4 box. It's hard enough figuring out the architecture of the software without wasting time trying to figure out whether your problems are coming from insufficient hardware, so, I would say go for it. Jeff's repo combines packages from Fedora Core and Extras, Dries, Freshrpms, Livna, CCRMA, and a number of packages he's built himself - so everything just works without having to worry about the repo-incompatibilities - you have to go outside of his repo for 'non-free' stuff because he does adhere to the Fedora no-non-free software philosophy - I'm using nvidia drivers from freshrpms, which are great because you don't have to mess with kernel-modules everytime a new kernel comes out. I'm also running vmware and acroread, and I've enabled Windows Media playback by loading the all-codecs package from the mplayer site - that's about it. Everything else is blag - I've got two FC6 boxes and two blag boxes, and for day to day operations, they are indistinguishable. Jeff is running a specialized distro for a limited audience, so he doesn't have the global broader requirements for meeting the needs of the much larger audience that Fedora does, so, don't take this as an endorsement of some superiority of blag over Fedora - they're slightly different, and both are great. In my corner of the OS world, I'm hoping for Linux to get into the same ballpark with regards to content creation and the new media(s) as the Windows world - I'd say things are looking up. I think we'll see a Linux version of Glasgow soon, which just may get into the same league as Photoshop in many areas; I'm watching Jahshaka closely, as they are about to release a major rewrite of their code with version 3; Cinelerra has a very active developer base and is undergoing rapid development; I wish there were better web authoring packages - NVU appears to have died, and it wasn't all that great to begin with - I just can't get wrapped around Quanta and I don't have the right brain for doing web authoring from code. Audio has a number of wonderful projects ongoing - they're all in blag, by the way. But, I'm digressing, though not from the subject line.... > I can let it link my > Fedora /opt directory where all of my devel stuff is. I think I'll do > that and let blag have the POWER. <grins> Ric -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
