The need for a Multimedia Distribution [LWN.net]

The need for a Multimedia Distribution

Posted Feb 27, 2003 19:59 UTC (Thu) by yohahn (guest, #4107)
In reply to: The need for a Multimedia Distribution by iabervon
Parent article: The State of Multimedia Linux

I would say there is a big market in the desktop for production. More in homes than in business. I would use the sales of DVD cameras, DVD+-RW drives, CD-RW drives, and video capture cards to support my claim.
The home multimedia authoring market is just going to get bigger as the home user gets more savy. (I think they will also start using it in church and school stuff, more and more.)

As to having everything in one distro. I agree with your assessment than a different run level could do the trick. This is a good plan for the long run

On the other hand, right now, I think it's a bit overly complex to expect it to fit right in, right away. Currently, low-latency is a custom kernel, ALSA is a custom kernel, and c++ libraries don't all work together for dynamic linking. I think a separate distro now, could help lead to packages that fit right in, later. (this model fits right into debian, I think)

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