Re: Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists and wannabes
On Friday 17 November 2006 06:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in creating a Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists I think Agnula/DeMuDi might be a starting point for you - have you looked at their project? http://www.agnula.org/ The project seems to be a bit dormant at the moment (no news since 2005), but at least somebody has edited the Wiki at http://demudi.agnula.org/ as recently as October this year so it's not entirely dead. cheers -- vbi -- If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce today would cost $100, get a million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. pgpTbMeh4pgeF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists and wannabes
Hi Adrian, On Sat, November 18, 2006 4:45 am, Adrian von Bidder wrote: I think Agnula/DeMuDi might be a starting point for you - have you looked at their project? Yes, I have looked at both Agnula and Dyne.bolic. My impression is that Angula is heavily weighted toward music composition and recording and Dyne.bolic emphasizes streaming audio and video. While I'd like to have a minimalistic collection of sound recording and music composition tools -- just enough, say, to record a simple animation sound track -- I'd like to weight the collection predominantly toward the visual/graphic arts. Over the next couple of days I'll try to list some of the packages that I'd like to see in the distribution. Big issue is that I don't yet understand the process of creating a custom disk well enough. I'll be working on that. But, if it's just a process of substituting package names in a file, then an existing package like Agnula might be well worth studying. Second issue is that, for the audience I'm envisioning, the technical issues of loading the software, setting up user accounts, configuring network and peripherals -- printer, scanner, graphics tablet, etc. -- must be reduced to simplest possible procedures. These, I know, are issues for all of Debian. But maybe this project can lend them impetus. Many thanks, Lloyd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists and wannabes
Hello, I'm interested in creating a Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists -- aspiring, amateur, and professional. I'd like some tools that are easy enough for kids and impatient adults, say Tux Paint, and others with enough headroom for professionals (Scribus, Blender, Lyx, Audacity). The Debian repository has many outstanding tools for illustrators, graphic artists, animators, photographers, sound and music production, writers, etc. I'd like to find and select the best of breed across the various arts and package them into an easy-to-load, easy to configure (printer, scanner, graphics tablet, sound peripherals, etc.) distribution. I've been studying the web pages on custom distributions and live CDs and the package management chapters of Krafft's Debian System Concepts and Techniques has been my bed-side reading. But I've yet to find anything that gives me step-by-step recipe or sense of how challenging the task might be. Anyone interested? Can anyone point me in the right direction? And if I take it on, anyone available to help me over the rough spots? Many thanks, Lloyd R. Prentice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists and wannabes
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in creating a Custom Debian Distribution for creative artists -- aspiring, amateur, and professional. I'd like some tools that are easy enough for kids and impatient adults, say Tux Paint, and others with enough headroom for professionals (Scribus, Blender, Lyx, Audacity). Sounds nice. But I've yet to find anything that gives me step-by-step recipe or sense of how challenging the task might be. Have you ever read http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ Section 7 describes How to start a Custom Debian Distribution. You should definitely have a look at DeMuDi which just covers the audio part of your project. You might decide whether it is reasonable to include DeMuDi work into your project or just to concentrate onto the visual part and advise users to install your CDD and DeMuDi in parallel. If you understand a Custom Debian Distribution in the sense it is described in the paper it is perfectly possible to have more than one CDD installed on one computer (even if this is an often ignored fact inside this concept). Anyone interested? Can anyone point me in the right direction? And if I take it on, anyone available to help me over the rough spots? Just ask on the list debian-custom@lists.debian.org if something remains unclear in the paper. I'm keen on hearing suggestions for enhancement of this text. Moreover I would love if we could move this discussion to this list because it just deals with those issues and debian-project is just for general discussion. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
