[Sussex] Distros

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

"Chris Jones" <cmsj at tenshu.net> writes:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, 5 April, 2005 14:32, Geoffrey J. Teale said:
>> http://www.turbocashuk.com/
>
> Good. It's not very cross platform though.

Sheeesh... demanding today aren't we. :-)

>> Which you can get as a plug in and I have used to get professional
>> quality print work done for Emma Tindley couture in East Grinstead.
>
> The plugin is a hack and an almost-unmaintained one at that.

Worked fine for me, sorry that you're mileage differs. :-(

Maybe you should take this up with the GIMP development team?

>
>> http://www.arboretum.com/
>
> OS X only.

It's GPL'd though.  Free Software isn't a "linux only" domain.

>  > http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/02/22/open_source_realtime_video_editing.htm
>
> That looks a lot more like it, thanks, I will check that out asap
> (although the released code seems to lag some of the features they are
> touting, from what I can see. Still, definitely one to watch)

Good.


> I go through the ones in debian and on freshmeat every now and then and
> they've always been rubbish, with kino and avidemux as the nearest to
> decent programs (and kino is DV only, which is a bit useless).

Debian is seriously behind the times.  

>>
> This is true and the significantly smaller markets for such niche software
> mean they will probably be more receptive to requests/demands for porting
> ;)

Exactly.

> I also agree with that, I think we're just differing a little on how much
> of the esoteric work is yet done :)

Maybe my language was over broad.

> The whole GNU/Linux thing, mostly.

That's not politics that's recognition.  You _cannot_ use Linux in any
meaningful way without using the major elements of the GNU operating
system which pre-existed Linux.  

> As to why I think FSF will release GNU, including Hurd, as a whole distro:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html (by RMS)
>
> "We're now starting to prepare the actual release of the GNU system, with
> the GNU Hurd."

Yup.. and guess what organisation's name that falls under "Debian"
;-).  It's been about for a while (that text was written in 2002).  

-- 
Geoff Teale
CMed Technology            -   gteale at cmedresearch.com
Free Software Foundation   -   tealeg at member.fsf.org

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