Can you guys take this to pd-ot please?

On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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> How about kdenlive or cinelerra?  I've been working a bit with kdelive and it 
> seems pretty straightforward and even usable ;)
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> .hc
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> On Sep 22, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
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>> the achilles heel for linux in my opinion is still video editing.
>> I've tried everything from Broadcast2000 to Lives with no luck
>> bueller?
>> ________________________________________
>> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of James 
>> Dunn [[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:25 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [PD] unix and (bad) companies.
>> 
>> 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 proprietary ATI driver (no longer maintained) will only run on the old 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...
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> Quoth servando barreiro, on 22/09/10 12:06:
>> 
>> HI there..
>> 
>> 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..
>> 
>> At some point I tried  beOS and I found it great but I couldn´t do anything 
>> w it..
>> 
>> 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..)
>> 
>> 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..)
>> 
>> 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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