[gNewSense-users] Installation and Software for Multimedia

[Wally Lepore]

Hi r. siddharth,

Thanks for getting back to me. Very helpful links.

>>>The present stable version of gNewSense is pretty old but the fact 
remains true that it ensures that all the programs that can be installed
 in the distribution are free as in freedom.

Yes r. siddharth, I appreciate that. Stable is important.By the way, I 
need to be educated on this next question. Why should I care if a 
specific Linux distro is old verses a newer version distro such as 
Ubuntu 12.04? Is it so newer programs can run on it? 

I obviously know why windows 7 is better than windows 98 but in the 
world of linux distros, an old distro version can be as young as only 2 
years. Please educate me on this. Thank you r. siddharth

>>>We have a gNewSense Documentation[1] (wiki) for users to get acquainted 
with gNewSense. For gNewSense installation help, you my take a look at 
this page[2], you will definitely jostle with hard-disk partitioning 
which might be a night-mare for new-users, you may want to take a look 
at this page[3] to get a taste of GNU/Linux hard-disk partitioning.


[1]: http://www.gnewsense.org/Documentation

[2]: http://www.gnewsense.org/Documentation/InstallingGNewSense

[3]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=282018&highlight=partitioning

Looks good r. siddharth. I do have experience in partitioning drives so (hopefully) I'm not completely in the dark ;-)



>>>FYI, There are "free as in freedom" distros that are wholly meant for 
video & audio production. You may be interested to test drive those 
distros. For more info, go here:


        http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

Yes I have already seen this page and have studied it closely. Thank you very much. Great link!

Thank you
Wally


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:54 AM, r. siddharth <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thursday 30 August 2012 10:56 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:

Can you please tell me where I can read about installing Gnewsense ona
separate hard drive for a dual boot with windows. I would like to
eventually migrate over to 100% gNewSense.

We have a gNewSense Documentation[1] (wiki) for users to get acquainted 
with gNewSense. For gNewSense installation help, you my take a look at 
this page[2], you will definitely jostle with hard-disk partitioning 
which might be a night-mare for new-users, you may want to take a look 
at this page[3] to get a taste of GNU/Linux hard-disk partitioning.

[1]: http://www.gnewsense.org/Documentation
[2]: http://www.gnewsense.org/Documentation/InstallingGNewSense
[3]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=282018&highlight=partitioning

Period.

The present stable version of gNewSense is pretty old but the fact 
remains true that it ensures that all the programs that can be installed
 in the distribution are free as in freedom.

Also I did hours and hours of research over the past few days and have
learned a lot in regards to GNU/Linux or rather as Richard Stallmam says,
"GNU+Linux. I did much research and would like to know if gNewSense can
handle a variety of Multimedia production applications such as a Video
Editor and a Digital Audio Workststion (DAW) much like Ardour?
http://ardour.org/

In other words, can it install and run most applications that work with
Ubuntu?

The present stable version of gNewSense is based on ubuntu "hardy". 
Therefore, it should run application that work in ubuntu provided that 
the application is free as freedom.

FYI, There are "free as in freedom" distros that are wholly meant for 
video & audio production. You may be interested to test drive those 
distros. For more info, go here:

        http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

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