[Kdenlive-devel] Re: [Dvdauthor-developer] Live DVD Authoring / Editing CD

[Rolf Dubitzky]

I can fully understand the point for a live distro after I tried to get mythTV 
running on my box. the live KnoppMyth ran without problems while the normal 
installation/configuration cost me many hours. The live-distros cover up for 
crappy and over-complicated installation procedures. missing documentation. 
wrong documentation. crappy and missing setup scripts and dialogs.
Read the recent ESR article "The Luxury of Ignorance" for that.

Of course, IMHO, people should, the f*&ck, fix their 
config/setup/docu/help/faq/gui and don't make live CDs.
</rant> 
No pun intended for any specific LiveCD authour (except for my recent 
frustration with KnoppMyth :)

Cheers, Rolf


On Friday 27 February 2004 01:15, Scott T. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 00:12, qdvdauthor wrote:
> > I would like to ask if some of you would be interested in putting
> > together a live bootable CD (similar to, or based on Knoppix), which is
> > not too bloated, say around 20-50MBytes, and has all one needs to
> > author, and burn Video DVDs, VCDs, CDs et al.
>
> not sure the point.  anyone who wants to burn DVDs/CDs will have the
> media files stored somewhere, and that (probably) means they already
> have an OS of some sort installed.  Wouldn't it just be easier to
> compile the said programs for that OS?
>
> > I think this would be a very interesting project. I am currently still
> > in pre-alpha mode for 'Q' DVD-Author but I already get some messages
> > about compile problems. With a bootable CD we could ensure that all
> > applications (kdenlive, dvdauthor, kino etc.) are working propperly
> > together and the user could check if it is working for him.
>
> The fact that some users have problems compiling programs is not a
> compelling reason to have Yet Another Live Distro.  In my opinion, there
> are way too many live distros (I think there should be two: Knoppix, and
> a tiny rescue disc).
>
> You can always prepackage binary versions of your programs for those
> that cannot compile for themselves, or specify the minimum requirements
> for compiling.  Also, autoconf is your friend (be sure to distribute
> pregenerated 'configure' scripts in addition to 'configure.ac' because
> autoconf is very version specific)
>
> 	Scott
>
>
>
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