My favorite lightweight distribution is Crunchbang (Debian-based with Openbox or XFCE environments (I prefer Openbox)). You could also try Fedora for Gnome 3 then install whatever you want alongside it. Then there's always the Arch Linux route if you like building it yourself. Out of those, Fedora is the most strict for packages (only FOSS under their guidelines, few games), followed by Crunchbang (open and some free proprietary licenses, more games), then Arch (you can find pretty much anything so long as it's not illegal).
Can anyone tell me what the best video edditing software for linux is?
Im hoping for something that can compare to the big ones(final cut pro, adobe premiere).
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32220349]My favorite lightweight distribution is Crunchbang (Debian-based with Openbox or XFCE environments (I prefer Openbox)). You could also try Fedora for Gnome 3 then install whatever you want alongside it. Then there's always the Arch Linux route if you like building it yourself. Out of those, Fedora is the most strict for packages (only FOSS under their guidelines, few games), followed by Crunchbang (open and some free proprietary licenses, more games), then Arch (you can find pretty much anything so long as it's not illegal).[/QUOTE]
Regarding Fedora, you'll most likely want to check out RPMFusion.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32191654]
I'm not saying Computer Science is bad because I love it, it's just the classes are horrible.
You get professors who are stuck in the mid 90s, and then you take 3 classes that start at how to declare variables in Java or C++.[/QUOTE]
My very first lesson in Uni was about programming. I already "know" how to call methods, make methods, declare variables, how to print them and what the "using" keyword does in C#.
That's quite a lot for 90 minutes.
[QUOTE=Richy19;32222028]Can anyone tell me what the best video edditing software for linux is?
Im hoping for something that can compare to the big ones(final cut pro, adobe premiere).[/QUOTE]
As of now, they all suck. But [url=lightworksbeta.com]Lightworks[/url], one of the best professional tools in the world, is going open core. It was used in movies like Pulp Fiction and Shutter Island.
The program itself will be freely available for Linux soon, and is available for Windows now. They delayed its beta due to demand -- they got so many requests for a Linux port that they wanted to make sure it was stable before they released it, and they wanted to avoid giving Linux a bad name for video editing software seeing as how they are the first real major developers supporting it.
You have to pay for proprietary codec support (hence "open core" and not "open source"), but it's only $60 a year. $30 for educational purposes.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32223304]As of now, they all suck. But [url=lightworksbeta.com]Lightworks[/url], one of the best professional tools in the world, is going open core. It was used in movies like Pulp Fiction and Shutter Island.
The program itself will be freely available for Linux soon, and is available for Windows now. They delayed its beta due to demand -- they got so many requests for a Linux port that they wanted to make sure it was stable before they released it, and they wanted to avoid giving Linux a bad name for video editing software seeing as how they are the first real major developers supporting it.
You have to pay for proprietary codec support (hence "open core" and not "open source"), but it's only $60 a year. $30 for educational purposes.[/QUOTE]
What about if you dont use propretary codecs?
Just H.264 or what ever its called
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32223304]As of now, they all suck. But [url=lightworksbeta.com]Lightworks[/url], one of the best professional tools in the world, is going open core. It was used in movies like Pulp Fiction and Shutter Island.
The program itself will be freely available for Linux soon, and is available for Windows now. They delayed its beta due to demand -- they got so many requests for a Linux port that they wanted to make sure it was stable before they released it, and they wanted to avoid giving Linux a bad name for video editing software seeing as how they are the first real major developers supporting it.
You have to pay for proprietary codec support (hence "open core" and not "open source"), but it's only $60 a year. $30 for educational purposes.[/QUOTE]
Do you HAVE to use the proprietary codec, or can you use your own/open source codecs?
Free codecs are free with the program.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32223513]Free codecs are free with the program.[/QUOTE]
So if you only use free codecs, the program is free?
The program is free, but the Linux version's open beta hasn't started yet. Once it's released, you can freely download it, but you have to have a payed account for the proprietary codecs.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32223625]The program is free, but the Linux version's open beta hasn't started yet. Once it's released, you can freely download it, but you have to have a payed account for the proprietary codecs.[/QUOTE]
If that's the case, I'll just use open codecs. I'm already avoiding proprietary software as much as possible anyway :v:
[QUOTE=Richy19;32223355]What about if you dont use propretary codecs?
Just H.264 or what ever its called[/QUOTE]
H.264 isn't exactly a free codec. It's covered by patents which you have to pay to license.
Posting from Lynx browser in Arch Linux
[QUOTE=FPtje;32222316]My very first lesson in Uni was about programming. I already "know" how to call methods, make methods, declare variables, how to print them and what the "using" keyword does in C#.
That's quite a lot for 90 minutes.[/QUOTE]
God damn Dutch education system.
According to the course schedule for what I was in before I switched to the second semester course had printing variables at week 2, and functions were week 5.
I don't have a course schedule for the class I'm currently in, but it's still not that great.
But speaking of Dutch, I've been translating Tweakers.net articles to teach myself the language because I'm leaving this dump of a country.
[editline]10th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;32223625]The program is free, but the Linux version's open beta hasn't started yet. Once it's released, you can freely download it, but you have to have a payed account for the proprietary codecs.[/QUOTE]
I wonder if x264 is "free" enough that Lightworks would let you use it.
Learning the magic of netcat, nslookup and a couple other commands. I find it funny that my step-dad takes several minutes going through the network information with the router (and about 60% of the time failing to find the information) and I type in a few commands and I've already got more info.
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;32226141]Posting from Lynx browser in Arch Linux[/QUOTE]lynx sucks, use w3m
Well, I'm on a fully working copy of Debian Testing.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17065151/2011-09-11-041117_1360x768_scrot.png[/img]
Just gonna update my kernel real quick and I should be set.
I'm having some weird problem on Ubuntu 11.04
I tried to install GNOME 3, and it came up with some Win95 looking theme. I tried to revert back to the normal desktop but when I do I get this:
[code]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
evolution-exchange notify-osd
Suggested packages:
evolution-exchange-dbg
The following packages will be REMOVED
xfce4-notifyd xubuntu-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed
evolution-exchange notify-osd ubuntu-desktop
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 635 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,531 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main notify-osd amd64 0.9.30-0ubuntu4 [119 kB]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main evolution-exchange amd64 2.32.2-0ubuntu3 [512 kB]
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main ubuntu-desktop amd64 1.220 [3,876 B]
Fetched 635 kB in 0s (910 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 216405 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xubuntu-desktop ...
dpkg: xfce4-notifyd: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
gnome-power-manager depends on notification-daemon; however:
Package notification-daemon is not installed.
Package notify-osd which provides notification-daemon is not installed.
Package xfce4-notifyd which provides notification-daemon is to be removed.
update-notifier depends on notification-daemon; however:
Package notification-daemon is not installed.
Package notify-osd which provides notification-daemon is not installed.
Package xfce4-notifyd which provides notification-daemon is to be removed.
Removing xfce4-notifyd ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_GB.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Selecting previously deselected package notify-osd.
(Reading database ... 216346 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking notify-osd (from .../notify-osd_0.9.30-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up notify-osd (0.9.30-0ubuntu4) ...
Selecting previously deselected package evolution-exchange.
(Reading database ... 216381 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking evolution-exchange (from .../evolution-exchange_2.32.2-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntu-desktop.
Unpacking ubuntu-desktop (from .../ubuntu-desktop_1.220_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (2.31.0-0ubuntu2) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/ubuntu-logo.svg doesn't exist.
dpkg: error processing gnome-icon-theme (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of elementary-icon-theme:
elementary-icon-theme depends on gnome-icon-theme; however:
Package gnome-icon-theme is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing elementary-icon-theme (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of empathy:
empathy depends on gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.30.0); however:
Package gnome-icon-theme is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing empathy (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of evince:
evince depends on gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.17.1); however:
Package gnome-icon-theme is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing evince (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of evolution:
evolution depends on gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.19.92); however:
Package gnome-icon-theme is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing evoluNo apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
tion (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-control-center:
gnome-control-center depends on gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.24); however:
Package gnome-icon-theme is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xubuntu-icon-theme:
xubuntu-icon-theme depends on elementary-icon-theme; however:
Package elementary-icon-theme is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xubuntu-icon-theme (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of evolution-exchange:
evolution-exchange depends on evolution (>= 2.32.2); however:
Package evolution is not configured yet.
evolution-exchange depends on evolution (<< 2.33.0); however:
Package evolution is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing evolution-exchange (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
ubuntu-desktop depends on evince; however:
Package evince is not configured yet.
ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-control-center; however:
Package gnome-control-center is not configured yet.
ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-icon-theme; however:
Package gnome-icon-theme is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gnome-icon-theme
elementary-icon-theme
empathy
evince
evolution
gnome-control-center
xubuntu-icon-theme
evolution-exchange
ubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[/code]
I'm not quite sure what to do, Can anyone help me out?
Sync your package manager's index. I'm not entirely sure what the command is for that. [url=http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get]This should help[/url].
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32231876]Sync your package manager's index. The command should be something like this:
[code]
sudo apt-get update
[/code][/QUOTE]
I did that, updates fine.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;32231898]I did that, updates fine.[/QUOTE]
Ok, I guess it was the command I was thinking of. Try installing the packages again.
I reinstalled GNOME3 and got this:
[code]update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/ubuntu-logo.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/icons/gnome/256x256/places/start-here.png because associated file /usr/share/icons/gnome/256x256/places/ubuntu-logo.png (of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/start-here.png because associated file /usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/ubuntu-logo.png (of link group start-here.svg) doesn't exist.
[/code]
It didn't say it failed though.
The first one is saying that it's using the ubuntu logo in place of the "start" icon in the scalable icons. The second and third messages are saying that they're going to skip the creation of the ubuntu logo in the 48x48 and 256x256 icons because the "start" icon doesn't exist.
It shouldn't cause any problems.
I give up. Installed GNOME3 again, and now it gets stuck on the splash screen.
Is there a way to install Arch without messing with other partitions?
Yes, it's possible. You can even preserve your /home directory (although backing up is still recommended).
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32226206]God damn Dutch education system.
According to the course schedule for what I was in before I switched to the second semester course had printing variables at week 2, and functions were week 5.
I don't have a course schedule for the class I'm currently in, but it's still not that great.
But speaking of Dutch, I've been translating Tweakers.net articles to teach myself the language because I'm leaving this dump of a country.
[editline]10th September 2011[/editline]
I wonder if x264 is "free" enough that Lightworks would let you use it.[/QUOTE]
What language do you use at your university? I use C#. Two years ago they used Java.
[img]http://navalrp.co.uk/public/images/archlinux.PNG[/img]
First try too :dance:
The problem will by my retarded graphics card driver.
The hell is that terminal font?
[QUOTE=esalaka;32234974]The hell is that terminal font?[/QUOTE]
monospace, it's default in XFCE4.
It just seems so [B]wrong[/B]
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