What's needed for a Creative Person such as myself in a Multimedia Fedora Spin...
The latest OpenOffice 2.1(openoffice.org;) NVU.com, (Web Editor;) GIMPshop (very good hack of GIMP;) Scribus (newsletter;) Kino (Video Editor;) Audacity (Sound Editor;) VideoLAN Client; WINE support for Picasa (iphoto clone;) Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, and GAIM.
A special Live CD or DVD with just multimedia software enabled would be SOOOOO cool!
Mark McLaughlin - fedoraworld.blogspot.com
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 16:58 -0500, Markus McLaughlin wrote:
What's needed for a Creative Person such as myself in a Multimedia Fedora Spin...
The latest OpenOffice 2.1(openoffice.org;) NVU.com, (Web Editor;) GIMPshop (very good hack of GIMP;) Scribus (newsletter;) Kino (Video Editor;) Audacity (Sound Editor;) VideoLAN Client; WINE support for Picasa (iphoto clone;) Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, and GAIM.
A special Live CD or DVD with just multimedia software enabled would be SOOOOO cool!
Fortunately, the excellent contributors in Fedora are making tools that should enable you to build this set yourself. Then you can master the images and share with the rest of the community.
josh
On Sunday 18 February 2007, Markus McLaughlin wrote:
What's needed for a Creative Person such as myself in a Multimedia Fedora Spin...
The latest OpenOffice 2.1(openoffice.org;) NVU.com, (Web Editor;) GIMPshop (very good hack of GIMP;) Scribus (newsletter;) Kino (Video Editor;) Audacity (Sound Editor;) VideoLAN Client; WINE support for Picasa (iphoto clone;) Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, and GAIM.
A special Live CD or DVD with just multimedia software enabled would be SOOOOO cool!
One of the goals of the changes made for Fedora 7 is to allow users to create customized spins that may contain whatever software they like.
Fedora has a firm commitment to Free and Open Source Software. As such, tools like Picasa cannot be included in Fedora. The download provided by Google can be installed and used on Fedora, though I cannot personally recommend it. If you look through some of the other packages available in Fedora, you may be surprised at some of the alternatives that are present.
OpenOffice.org 2.2, Scribus, Audacity, Wine, Firefox, Thunderbird and Gaim are already in the Fedora trees. GIMP and a few other similar tools are also included, though nobody has felt it worthwhile to package GIMPshop for inclusion. Nvu also awaits a patient packager, though RPMs are available elsewhere. Kino and VLC make extensive use of patented formats and so are not eligible for inclusion in Fedora, but Fedora-compatible RPMs are available from third parties.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
With the new tools and architecture of Fedora 7, you can gather these packages and produce your own media containing just what you want, not that you couldn't already, it's just easier now.