On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 18:22 +0100, jdd wrote:

Le 23/01/2012 17:59, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) a écrit :

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Can we make a distro focus on music with such software and codecs? Some of them areMixxx,Audacity,Rosengarden,Alsa Mixer,Ardour,jack control,jack server,JAmin,Musescore

well... making an "multimedia openSUSE" would be must for me, but the main problem is that of the crippled applications that are only provided by Packman and not tested enough.

helping Packman and testing multimedia is important

jdd

I don't think that this is the right thread to be singling out Packman. But within that vein, obviously having a multi-media focused respin where more eyes are concentrated on the packages themselves would only further help whatever issues you feel Packman exists in this realm. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 19:39 +0100, jdd wrote:

Le 23/01/2012 18:24, Bryen M Yunashko a écrit :

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I don't think that this is the right thread to be singling out Packman. But within that vein, obviously having a multi-media focused respin where more eyes are concentrated on the packages themselves would only further help whatever issues you feel Packman exists in this realm.

I don't really understand what you mean (I'm a bit short in english, sorry)

I just want to show that most multimedia packages are *not* available from openSUSE other than crippled (that is only as placeholder), and need packman. (think about ffmpeg). It's only due to legal problems everybody knows

I don't think packman is available for Studio, or is it?

Packman makes a great job, I couldn't live without them!!

jdd

Ok then we got our wires crossed. :-) I understand better what you meant now. It's my understanding that we can use Packman with Studio images. However, maybe someone with more expertise on the legalese, can explain what pitfalls we need to consider when using Packman. So I could be wrong. Bryen M Yunashko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 22:38 +0100, Oliver Bengs wrote:

Am Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:59:23 +0200 schrieb "Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr)" :

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Can we make a distro focus on music with such software and codecs? Some of them areMixxx,Audacity,Rosengarden,Alsa Mixer,Ardour,jack control,jack server,JAmin,Musescore

and many more.

It isn't so easy to make a good audio distro. I did it some time ago¹. It is more than just putting the packages together in SUSE Studio, you need VST-Support² to reach the musicans. You have to recreate the menus, cause there is all in Multimedia/Audio.

I would love to see openSUSE in the Linuxaudio scene again. I still have the old stuff somewhere on my HDD, if you need something let it me know.

[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000208 [2] http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000216

P.S: Still miss my RockSUSI ;) -- Oliver Bengs

I'm curious whether this should be considered as a "Music distro" or a MultiMedia distro. I think we can combine better efforts putting it all together rather than separate, and really, there's reasons why you want music creation functionality with video and vice versa. And P.S., I like "RockSUSI" and not just because it looks like my nick reversed. :-) Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org