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OSVids Shows Video Clips of Linux in Action

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the glass-bottom-web-site dept.

Ant writes "NewsForge (Also owned by VA) shares a new Web site launched last week called OSvids.com, that shows video clips of Linux distributions in action."

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  1. Diggstyle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shortest summary ever. I'll start tagging short summaries like this one with 'diggstyle'...

    1. Re:Diggstyle by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, mine was even shorter as "NewsForge shares a new Web site, OSvids.com, that shows video clips of various Linux distributions in action." on my Web site. I couldn't think of anything else to add. Basically, it is K.I.S.S.

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    2. Re:Diggstyle by kestasjk · · Score: 2, Funny

      To get it accepted you should have added a stupid question, like "Will this be the end of screenshots?", or "Do video reviews mark the beginning of the end for reading?"

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  2. Linux porn. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "OSVids Shows Video Clips of Linux in Action"

    Whoo Hoo! Take it all off!

    1. Re:Linux porn. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


      Just the kernel, baby!

  3. Nice by ickyellf · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll start popping the corn, or would that be compiling kernels? I've been saving that joke for such a long time.

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  4. Not for linux! by Beuno · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your version of the free Flash Player by downloading here."

    Seems it only wirks for windows folks with the latest flash...
    why would they do a site like this and leave most linux users out of it??

    1. Re:Not for linux! by Toba82 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Because this isn't for Linux users. This is to convince Windows users to use Linux.

      But you already knew that.

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    2. Re:Not for linux! by Beuno · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually, I noticed later on they do provide an OGG download for linux users...

    3. Re:Not for linux! by ElleyKitten · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Because this isn't for Linux users. This is to convince Windows users to use Linux.
      By showing them videos they can't see in Linux?
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    4. Re:Not for linux! by Toba82 · · Score: 2, Funny

      They don't know that until it's too late.

      Mwahahahahahaha.

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  5. Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can enjoy the boot-up of various os's over and over without actually having to reboot! I can stare at various prorgress bars and text notifications, while pretending I await to be able to do something - except I can actually do something!

  6. Mirror by jasonwea · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just incase all this video streaming kills the server I have provided a mirror of my favourite below:

    Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable server.example.com tty1
    server.example.com login: _

    Ahh, I could look at that for hours ;)

  7. Re:Great site for developers! by mfaras · · Score: 2, Informative

    They already had. Well, not the actual developers, but the guys at Viamatic.
    Check this out, the Viamatic foXpose extension
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  8. YOWZA by illuminatedwax · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah, baby, let me at that hot Linux action! I can't tell you how many times I've had to pay for sites to watch sweet videos of Gentoo compiling software, or videos of a Red Hat desktop where someone hits the little hat and the menu pops up!! Once I found this sweet video of someone configuring their sendmail.cf. It was HOT.

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  9. Re:OT: What do they use to creat these videos by Plug · · Score: 5, Informative
    Camtasia Studio.

    Originally, Buys says, the videos were encoded in QuickTime H.264, but "thanks to the feedback form [on the site] I quickly learned that this was far from optimal." Flash video seemed a good choice, except the software he was using to encode the video produced Flash that didn't work in Linux. "I received emails asking for Ogg-Theora videos, so I converted all the original QuickTime videos." Now, he installs the distribution of choice in Parallels Workstation on Windows and captures the virtual machine in proprietary Camtasia. "I've been looking for an open source replacement, but I have not found anything that provides the same level of functionality," Buys says. After the Camtasia capture, he exports the video first as Flash and then as a .mov file. "[I] convert the .mov to Ogg-Theora with ffmpeg2theora, then upload all the files to the server."
  10. Misspelling by impeachgod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine if this was misspelled: OSVids Shows Video Clips of Linus in Action.

  11. Re:OT: What do they use to creat these videos by zcat_NZ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No Linux replacement?

    What the hell is wrong with Istanbul Desktop Video Recorder? It's open source, it's in the repositories, and it records directly to ogg-video (with an option of recording raw if you have more free drivespace than CPU power).

    And if you want to do editing afterwards, try kino.

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  12. Re:OT: What do they use to creat these videos by xtracto · · Score: 2, Informative

    but I have not found anything that provides the same level of functionality,

    I have used Camtasia studio before and from what I have read from Istanbul it only does something like 1% of what Camtasia studio can do. Granted, the "basic" functionallity is still the same (capture in video a section of the screen), but then again Istanbul is far, far, FAAAAR away of being a replacement of camtasia.

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  13. Flash by blackjackshellac · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A flash site to view linux distros in action that cannot be viewed from a linux distro. Quality that. And yes, I know that I can download the ogg theora equivalent and watch that, but I'm lazy, and have grown used to youtube like video on the internets.

    When is hell is flash 8 going to be available for linux? Yoohoo, macromedia, anyone home?

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