[NTLUG:Discuss] bdest distro for multimedia?

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Howdy,
  I accidentally deleted your previous message rather than responded to
it, so I'll comment here.  Mandrake Discovery is a specialty version of
their distribution.  As an aside, they have another specialty distro
called Mandrake Move that is kind on like Knoppix with the default set
to store your home directory on a USB pen drive.  Well Mandrake
Discovery is designed for a home user and adds a licensed DVD player
while removing all server products.  I don't know if that means even
MySQL is gone.  I know one NTLUG member who has a copy.  Maybe he will
pipe in.
  And Movix is pretty neat.  It works well on a somewhat limited set of
hardware.  All but one system I tried it on had unsupported audio
devices, but I think I was just unlucky there.  The Movix project has 3
subprojects, of which eMovix is the most interesting to me. You can make
a self playing video to show your friends by taking a Divx or quicktime
and a few megabytes(they claim 8 meg) and writing it to a bootale CD.
I'll know more about eMovix in a few days I hope.
Good luck,
Ralph

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:01, clayramsey1 at comcast.net wrote:
> this is the thing I love most about open source!
>