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Videolinux.... A New Linux Distribution

promarkmedia.co.uk — Downloads working, alot of great stuff in one cool wrapper..A New Linux Distribution Focused on DVD Backup, Video Encoding, Editing & Authoring

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  • Killgore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting idea although still early in development. Personally i wouldnt have gone down the Live-CD path even if it can be installed to a hard-disk. It seems to me that people using this distro would want to install it directly from the start.
  • panditacjp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can.........
  • Wolfman~K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll have to give this a look...
  • skyshark88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nope only insall through live cd, very nice though 22 min install on sony vio laptop...
  • skyshark88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice........... beats ubuntu out of the box....and I only run linux going on a year....
  • dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd like that as a self contained package for my distro, not have to boot another OS altogether... But nice initiative nonetheless
  • coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ just install the tools videolinux uses on your current distro, that's what i plan to do with this later.
  • spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0omg the first pclos based distro!!
  • firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks interesting. Let me check it out.
  • GeekedAtBirth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is GREAT, especially if it supports the PSP. All you would have to do is get a bigger memory stick duo, rip DVDs, put them on the PSP, and you are set.

    Dugg.
  • Daiver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As a brand new PCLOS user myself, I´m happy to see a new distro based on it. PCLOS is the only distro that worked on my laptop. :)
  • ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A year ago there was demudi Agnula project that made it easier to use Linux's music software. Now I rock Ubuntu and it's does it all with little effort. I hope the same is true with Video.
  • vanden9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0can it play mp3 too
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5YetAnother Linux.

    I know it's great people spend all this time working on putting together software packages specifically for different users and all, but you can do it within one distro, and it keeps everyone working towards one goal..

    Fragmentation's probably the biggest fault in Linux. Choice is great to have if you know how to make that choice and plan to, but the majority of computer users aren't looking for the level of choice Linux provides, they're just looking to get their work done.

    *shrug* preaching to deaf ears.
  • berean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Fragmentation's probably the biggest fault in Linux. Choice is great to have if you know how to make that choice and plan to, but the majority of computer users aren't looking for the level of choice Linux provides, they're just looking to get their work done."

    Agreed. And for those who care enough to have a very specialized Linux distro, it's not difficult for them to simply customize most any distro they want. Linux could keep pushing forward and focus on the real issues (making it user-friendly) instead of just packaging different programs together with the same faults as the original distro. I don't see ANY loss in uniting the Linux efforts to a more centralized goal.
  • sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Indeed
  • Daiver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I actually made a post regarding fragmentation in the forum where I regularly post. I also think it's a huge problem.
  • skyshark88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude....... fragmentation=innovation..

    We all still could be using windows 3.1 and IE..
  • manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There seems to be this giant misunderstanding - not everybody running Linux dreams about Linux going mainstream. Not everybody's first concern is how to make Linux easier to use for everybody else - there are plenty of "fragments" with this goal in mind (Linspire, Xandros, Ubuntu, etc.), but this is not the aim of, say, College Linux or its Slackware parent, which is in some ways meant to be a bit hard so it is a learning experience for those interested in how a *NIX system works.

    And, as skyshark88 said, it is thanks to the OSS community's "fragmentation" that we have such powerful and specialized distros - just take a look at the various Knoppixs (Knoppix, STD, KnoppMyth, etc) for an idea of what Linux can be focused into with a good community backing it.

    Besides, I could care less if Linux runs on every Tom, Dick, and Harry's eMachine - Linux is already at the heart of over 70% of the world's top 500 supercomputers, and that, IMHO, is a far more impressive display of power.
  • chimona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with skyshark, the need for options is the fundamental reason for linux's existence. Linux isn't for anyone who doesn't know what an operating system is, which i'm sorry to say is most computer users. but in order for an iteration of Linux to to become ubiquitous, it needs to be developed independently from distros that have no intention of entering the consumer arena.

    Ubuntu is making a valiant push at really substantial market penetration. but all it really is, is a mix of alot of other things being developed simultaneously. with some solid programming to glue it all together.

    this unite and conquer mentality is *****. Linux's power lies in its ability to be infinitely configured to fit the needs of the end user. fragmentation is the basis for Linux's power.
  • chimona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0damn manifesto got his commnt out first. well said homie.
  • automagically, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the idea of a Distro with everything set up for a specific purpose. I can totally imagine Ubuntu putting out editions, like "media center", "server", "web developer", "av editor", "Web Cafe", etc. In a way, I think the specialized distro fixes the fragmentation problem others mention.
  • cokebottletuque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"We all still could be using windows 3.1 and IE.." - manfesto actually we couldn't 3.1 didn't support networking.
  • diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Have you noobs ever heard of a mac?
  • skyshark88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0......and where did Bill get that code???????????????
  • timewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Videolinux
  • cokebottletuque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0also considering there are several hundred(421) users to many trying to download off the US server we should really have more than 66 ppl using bittorrent... http://www.tlm-project.org/public/distributions/VideoLinux/Release/ISO/1.0-Alpha/
  • andrebsd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jeeze, with so many different live distros... i should just burn a bunch of live cds so i can boot into whatever i want at the time, lol.
  • kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 This is why linux will never take off. How many distros of it do you need?
  • manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@cokebottletuque

    That was actually skyshark's comment - but touche.

    @kolop1

    http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/l/Operating_System - Linux is on 72% of the world's top 500 supercomputers (and let's not forget it's in the backend of Google - and, for that matter, Digg, being a LAMP site). Define "taking off."
  • chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Linux could keep pushing forward and focus on the real issues (making it user-friendly) instead of just packaging different programs together with the same faults as the original distro."

    You see, that right there is the Windows mentality. Vanilla for everyone, preference be damned.

    Do you understand how Linux works? The packaging of different programs is its strength.

    To make my point more clear, lets go with a rosey view of your idea on how things should be. Lets take Ubuntu. First, it should have KDE, because no one likes Gnome. So, Ubuntu is now Kubuntu. But it can't be just pieced together and separate projects ran separately. Because you said it shouldn't be that way.

    So the kernel should be designed around Kubuntu, and KDE should be merged with Canonical (the Ubuntu folks). But KDE is based and relies on X. So, X merged with KDE and Ubuntu would all be designed together. Now Gnome is dead, because X will always be designed to cater to KDE and Ubuntu.
    SUSE, Mandriva, Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, Red Hat and the rest should be discontinued. They won't work with the new kernel, KDE or X anyway. RPM should be no more, since everything is APT, but not standard Apt, but the new designed-only-for Kubuntu apt. The one that won't work with any other distro because Kubuntu is the only one that matters.

    Any distro that plans to exist at all should cater and bend to be a Kubuntu knockoff, otherwise it simply won't be compatible with 90% (or more) of OSS Linux software, which is all designed around Kubuntu now. You would have your choice of Kubuntu, VeryMuchLikeKubuntu, DamnNearKubuntu and so on.

    And yes, Linux would rise in market share. Quite significantly in fact. It could potentially dethrone Windows. But at the same time, everyone who uses it now would abandon it for something else... anything else except the next Windows "this is good enough for everyone" OS.

    Collaboration in OSS and FOSS is great. Consolidation? No. Diversity is its strength.
  • Digger123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0doesn't include kino? lame no digg
  • ecollado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is one problem, I can not see the package cinelerra, I think this package is essential for editing video in a Linux box :(
  • IronChef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PASSWORD for Root: r00t
  • tmcleroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looks like a pretty cool distro. Now if only i was rich enough to build a second box just for video encoding,
  • skyshark88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Linux by word of mouth, lots of bad press by multimillionaire Bill, and still making strides that question Microsoft's inherent dominance...

    What would a world with Linux having a dominant role on the desktop look like?

    Do we a a community really want this.. and what are the ramifications?

    We see stolen code, a total abandonment of fair use of our property " store bought DVDs" and proprietary hardware!!!

    How can Linux really become mainstream when companies are told if they allow citizens to watch their legally purchased DVD, and listen to their legally purchased Cd's that they the company and the private citizen are both breaking the law???????????

    The strangle hold on our right is no more obvious than this instance, private companies like Sony, Microsoft, and others have hijacked our liberties in our own homes with willing and complicit governments around the world....... Liberty is dead.........
  • chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Liberty is dead........."

    Dying. To believe it is dead is to stop fighting to keep it alive. Dying always - has been for a very very long time.

    The strangest thing is that it isn't Orwell's 1984 negative utopia that has eroded our liberties. Sure, there is some of that - but the majority (in quantity if not in importance) has been businesses. They pay the government to enforce the company laws.

    No, rather than a big brother, it is more of a Shadowrun, corporations rule the world.

    "When Deep Space Exploration Ramps Up, It Will Be Corporations That Name Everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Starbucks."

    Money and power go hand in hand, but are two separate things. It is interesting to see that it is the quest for money, not power that has played the bigger role in regressions of our liberties.

    None of this is stated as fact - just my opinion.
  • regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1'"We all still could be using windows 3.1 and IE.." - manfesto actually we couldn't 3.1 didn't support networking.'

    Not out of the box, no, but there were 3rd-party stacks available. I used 3.1 to get on Teh Intarweb.
  • Ryochan7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No Cinelerra-Cvs and No Kino = No Digg
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