Ubuntu 10.10

[trekiej]

I have been using 10.10 for a little while. I like it. I seems to be pretty smooth. I have an A.M.D. 4 core c.p.u. and 4 Gigs of ram. Unfortunately I have built in H.D. 4290 graphics.
I sort of ditched Vista 32 for a while. I think my p.s. is going bad. I disconnected my internal drives for a while. I ran off of Puppy Linux for a while. The video and mouse would go off for no reason.
I hooked my internal 160 gb drive back up and am still using Ubuntu.

[trekiej]

I have a logic analyzer that needs win. If it was not for it, I would not need it.
What I do have a problem with is, I have trouble finding apps on Linux and at times installing apps.
Linux is rock solid.

[trekiej]

It does say some have used it with the Mac with VMware Fusion. I assume with windows.
I have not tried with Wine yet.
How well does Windows work on top of Linux?
I have an MSO-19 from Link Instruments.

[trekiej]

I ran Blender 2.56 Beta and it runs. I did not put it through its paces yet.
I would like to do these things.
1. Video Switching
2. Chroma Keying
3. Character Generation
4. Animation
5. Image Manipulation.
This is would be like a Toaster Package but for Ubuntu.

[trekiej]

I may look into making a pci and/or pci-e proto-board to do some research.

[trekiej]

I also like Slackware and Redhat. Fatdog64 runs fine too.

[trekiej]

I just used openshot and it seems fine.
I installed it from the software center.
This may be of interest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_editing_software

[trekiej]

What is a good vm for running vista/xp?

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@runequester
Thanks,I have used it a while back. It was on Win7 and not Linux.
I got vbox installed. I will install vista later.

[trekiej]

Has anyone used firewire on Ubuntu 10.10?
If so, how do you think a prosumer camera would fair?

[trekiej]

@Nicholas:
I have the lfs book. I have not gotten around to put it to good use.
There are plenty of distros, maybe too much to choose from.
@amigadave:
You may have to experiment.
@thread:
I am writing this from Icaros Light 1.2.6. on Ubuntu 10.10 with VirtualBox from the software installer. It runs the Icaros Light iso pretty well.

[trekiej]

I just installed it to a 10 gig virtual file system and it went well .

[trekiej]

@mt12345
 I have no idea if there is a version of Wine for PPC.
I assume it needs a x86 cpu.

@magnetic
Thanks. I would like to see what it is like to set a video studio.
Being able to switch cameras in FW sounds great.
I found a link in Wikipedia that compares video editing apps.
Blender and Kdenlive is seen as pro. software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_editing_software

[trekiej]

Blender 2.57 Stable has been released.
I need to use this more  often.

I have running on Virtual Box:
Icaros, Broadway, Vista32, Syllable, Debian 6.
OSX and Be-OS 5.0 Pro have to wait.

I use Diptrace on Vista32.
I have installed Wine but have not used it yet.
I would like to run Crysis on it.

I wish I had two ATI HD 5770 to try CrossfireX.

The only problem I see is when I down load something, the dialogue box has two bottoms.
I do not regret using Ubuntu 10.10. I am wanting to use Debian 6.

Later.

[trekiej]

I also have Boxee installed. It runs fine.
I went through the Boxee.tv web site.
I went to the "Other" selection.

XBMC needs a command line install.

I noticed some have Linux on notebooks.
How is Linux for notebooks?

I reinstalled Openshot. I have not gotten around to use though.