[PD] unix and (bad) companies.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

How about kdenlive or cinelerra?  I've been working a bit with kdelive  
and it seems pretty straightforward and even usable ;)

.hc

On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Pagano, Patrick wrote:

> the achilles heel for linux in my opinion is still video editing.
> I've tried everything from Broadcast2000 to Lives with no luck
> bueller?
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> From: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [pd-list-bounces at iem.at] On Behalf Of  
> James Dunn [james at 4thharmonic.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:25 AM
> To: pd-list at iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] unix and (bad) companies.
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> I love linux and ubuntu but the driver support is a bit of an issue.  
> I recently upgraded my mother's computer to 10.04 and now her Dell  
> V505 all-in-one printer doesn't work. I got no (helpful) response  
> from emailing Dell.
> Secondly on a pd related problem, I am still running 8.04 because  
> the proprietary ATI driver (no longer maintained) will only run on  
> the old version of xorg and the open source driver doesn't have 3D  
> support for Gem...
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> James
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> Quoth servando barreiro, on 22/09/10 12:06:
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> HI there..
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> I just want to "share" my experiences with Os´s..
>
> I started in the nineties with a windows machine, I tried 95, 98,  
> millenium, nt, xp....
> It hanged really frequently  (20 times in a day w cad software..) so  
> I assumed that as a normal function state from the machine..
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> At some point I tried  beOS and I found it great but I couldn´t do  
> anything w it..
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> years later, I discovered that computers with the fruit thing  and I  
> was really amazed, not just because of the stabilty  (but still one  
> or two hangs per day with os 9.2),  also because I could do audio in  
> real-time with them..  (well, coming from that windows nightmare,  
> even a gameboy was fascinating..)
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> Then I got one.. and until the day, I´ve been using all the Os´s and  
> also tried almost all the hardware that was/is in the market.
>
> My experience with linux (about 4 years ago, ethic/curiosity  )  
> started very slow, but definitely in an ascendent curve of  
> satisfaction & admiration..
>
> Nowadays to code and to travel, I use a small thinkpad with ubuntu  
> 10 and the experience is just fantastic..   It´s actually so good  
> that I´m starting to hate all the mac shits..   Because when you  
> know where linux cames from and who works on it,  you can understand  
> that sometimes you have to put energy  on your side to look for a  
> driver or whatever  (Not the case at all w ubu 10).
>
> What I can´t understand....  Is that this big companies (micr/appl)   
> with hundred or "thousands" of good programmers working for them,  
> are still doing crap...   (seems that they are focusing energies in  
> making money & trying to protect his soft/hard  instead of making  
> good code...)
>
> yesterday I formatted my mac and I installed the last system  
> (10.6 ).  There´s a known bug on it  that not just doesn´t connect  
> to internet, it also keeps sending packets to the router until the  
> router stops working,,,, (???).
>
> I had to reset the router from the linux and download one by one the  
> system updates for the mac.  This bug is known since 10.6.0,  I  
> already have the 10.6.4  and the bug it´s still not solved  
> completely.,.. (???????)
>
> This just shows that It doesn´t matter how many hundreds of related  
> posts you do in the official apple forums & related..  apple just don 
> ´t give a shit about the problems of the users....  (specially if  
> your hardware it´s not brand new...).
>
> The ubuntu forums are far more clear and helpful than that,,
>
> About windows, I will not complain anymore... (not neccesary),  but  
> I still "understand" people that uses it, because there´s people  
> that doesn´t care about computers (even when they are working w  
> them..)
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> what I do, when I´m teaching a workshop Is to carry one or two usb  
> sticks with a live distro (pure dyne / openartist ) and invite the  
> people to try a "truly" operative system..
>
> many of my friends, they have switched to Linux (at least  
> partially..) and they are happy w it.. (that makes me happy too..).
>
> If the trajectories of the operative systems evolutions  follow as  
> they are already, It wouldn´t sound strange to me that in some  
> years, the amount of linux users (pure or mixed) will increase  
> massively.
>
> To finish, I would just like to thank to all the linux developers /  
> contributors  for his hard work to make this incredibly operative  
> system.
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