[TriLUG] More Installfest questions ...

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 11:12, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:

> Actually - I was just talking about the way the information on the web site 
> was organized. Since I'm a newbie and I can't recognize what programs do 
> just by their names, it was easier for me to get a feel of what Debian 
> bundles with the distro. I'm sure that when I actually have *something* 
> installed it'll be easy enought to load/unload programs.

Ah, well that makes sense.  Unfortunately, Mandrake's resources
are limited compared to Debian and they are limited by the fact
that they need to make money, so they can't do everything.  They
do, however, make a great distribution that, I believe, is better
integrated than any of the others.

 
> I take it that this is stuff that could be loaded no matter what distro you 
> have? From this site though they only mention Mandrake. Does Debian come 
> with comparable software if not the same?

They provide src rpms so they can be built on other architectures.
You would probably run into problems with the fact that they've setup
all the build requirements and install requirements based on what's
available for Mandrake, but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt.
Since debian, however, doesn't use rpms, you might be able to
use the "alien" program to install the binary rpms directly...
 
> I'm not that into 3D stuff to spend money (at least not yet). The video 
> editing stuff sounds really cool though. I'll definitely be looking into that!

Well, you could always learn openGL and write your own. :-)

I just remembered the 3D package I was thinking of, btw.  It's
the Blue Moon Rendering Tools (http://www.bmrt.org/).  BMRT
is a Renderman clone.  It's not open source, but it is free,
even for commercial use.

Tanner
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