Can you guys take this to pd-ot please? On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > 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? >> ________________________________________ >> 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 proprietary ATI driver (no longer maintained) will only run on the old 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that > period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, > for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler > > > > > -------- Dan Wilcox danomatika.com robotcowboy.com
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