Le 19 Février 2006 05:32, vous avez écrit :
well, strange... first you said you made your livecd with pd and librairies and then you don't want to redistributed... for good reason (non-free stuff in it) and in the same time you said you need this non-free software to have a descent multimedia linux system...
I don't have to redistribute a collection of software that most of us can download and use legally (where its allowed). I added non-free software in my livecd mostly to support proprietary video formats, dvd decoding, Java applets, recent ATI and nVidia video cards and other things. This custom livecd is not a technological breakthrough, and it's not available for good reasons.
I am not at all agree, I do all my works (audio, video, printing, 3D...) since 3/4 years under linux, you have to be carefull about some hardware, but without that all what you want to do under multimedia could be realize without too much problem.
I agree with you. But I created a livecd so it can run on many PC hardware, not as a "we can be free forever" statement; I leave this exercice to the DyneBolic team. I could definitely remove all non-free software from my livecd, but that was not my goal.
I feel very inconfortable with those people that used linux for their works and that they always spit on it. I use different distros for my works (mix video, interactive installation, audio pro recording, live music, printing, website...etc) without one non-free software. So I affirme here, you could have a descent multimedia linux system without any stupid non-free software.
Again, I agree with you. I also feel very unconfortable with stupid non-free software. I also do most of my work with free software. But I needed a livecd with non-free software , nd that might happen again from time to time.
Why don't you try to custom your distro without any non-free software, it could help everyone, show that we could have another option with kanotix to work with multimedia!!! and specially a puredata customed!
Agnula : http://agnula.org Apodio : http://www.apodio.org Dynebolic : http://www.dynebolic.org PLanet CCRMA : http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
I know about those distributions. I agree with their agenda. I tried them all. But I don't have the budget of the Agnula team (millions or euros, all gone), I don't have the bandwidth to host iso images, the time to create a spify web site, marketing resources, help from friends, or a salary from a U.S. university. I just created one livecd with non-free software, like many people do. And if I ever build a new one with only free software, I might not even mention it... -- Marc