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New Red Hat Multimedia Oriented Distribution
ezadro writes "I just spotted this article at LinuxToday about Redhat being directly involved in a new distribution that will be known as ReHMuDi, which stands for Red Hat Multimedia Distribution." The goal seems to be
a system for professional audio composers and engineers. Don't expect it
for awhile- they have 24 months scheduled to do it, although it looks like
releases will start by the end of 02.
Linux is a great server OS. It's even a great desktop OS, if you know what you're doing. But professional audio?
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It's nice to dream, but for now and for the forseeable future, the software just isn't there. There's barely enough professional audio software for Windows... Linux just doesn't compete.
Until the software's written, there's no point in making a distro to pretend that it is.
Besides, about 98% of professional audio tweaks use Macs. The other 2% use Amiga.
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First of all, what is with the ridiculous name? Second, is Linux really suited for multimedia development?
When it comes to the Unices, the operating systems are slow themselves. But the graphic user interfaces are especially bloated and slow. A high performance and responsive operating system is what's needed for these applications. Linux is neither of these.
I would like to see this Linux be competitive in this field. But I think Linux needs a lot of work under the hood before it could be successful here.
The goal seems to be a system for professional audio composers and engineers. Don't expect it for awhile- they have 24 months scheduled to do it, although it looks like releases will start by the end of 02.
How do they expect to make money from this? It's such a small market. Granted, in small professional markets you can usually charge a lot for support, but I just don't see business case here.
"By developing a release specifically designed for professionals in the musical industry, Red Hat wants to enable authors and composers, as well as simple amateurs, to free themselves from technological and cultural constraints," declares Franz Meyer, Director for Southern Europe at Red Hat, before adding "By giving more freedom to artists, our aim is to expand the global nature of music even further and to extend the concept of Open Source Software to Open Source Music."
Not really related to my previous point, but I just have to say in response to this: "Barf me".
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
A slimmed and very much dumbed down Linux distro, with massive hardware support that is as easy to set up as Windows... without dependency problems... is something that would put Linux on many more desktops than today. Imho.
Lycoris? MDK? Lindows? Nah... Not there yet.
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I too wanted to do all of that with my primary workstation... and without sacraficing everything that I was already used to.
So, I bought a G4 with Mac OS X.
Granted, I had to add ram and buy a wireless 3 button mouse, but it's been working great and both my camcorder and Kodak digital camera worked perfect the first time I plugged them in. The next purchases on my list are a larger hard drive, Final Cut Pro (at my university computer store) and a USB jog/shuttle controller.
And I still handle my email with pine and fetchmail.
Support? You need good applications first. Where's my CoolEdit and the like under Windows? Blame me, but nobody is willing to fund such a project under an OSS license where Red Hat gets all the benefits and the coders are just "coOl GuyZ"...
I know, -100 troll, but that's how I feel about all this. I want to know how to fund good projects and leting those developers run the show, not "Red Hat Linux".
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