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A Distribution is Born
VideoLinux, Monday 13 March 2006 - 21:30:52
The idea came to me after reading a couple of posts in the Linux Forum at Doom9 which is one of my favourite resource site for anything DVD Backup & Video Related.
One post related getting varius win32 Video applications running in Wine
Some of these apps does not have a native Linux version, such as Avisynth, so if you need to use Avisynth with Linux you need to get it running in Wine.
The other post was about putting together a Doom9 Linux Distro, for the video enthusiasts that frequent Doom9, so that got me to thinking, what about a Linux Distro with all the native Linux multimedai apps plus Wine pre installed and configured ready to be able to install Windows Apps. So the VideoLinux idea was born.
So where to start? Although not a Linux Guru I had been dabbling with Linux for a few years now, so I had two choices as far as I could see.
1. Was to choose a Distrobution to modify or
2. Start from scratch, with a project like Linux From Scratch
I chose the first option as there are so many excellent Distro's to choose from, so the next question was which to choose, so I headed over to Distrowatch.com so after several hours of browsing Distrowatch and other sites I found there aew quite a few multimedia focused Distro's I could use but most of them had video & DVD Players but none had all the encoding, editing tools that i felt i wanted.
In the end I went back to my first Linux I tried and installed which was PCLinuxOS
I chose this for several reasons, it is a live cd which can be installed on to hard disc, it has the mklivecd scripts installed enabling you to author your own live cd, it uses the Synaptic Package Manager, which in my opinion is the best Package Manager around, it makes it so easy to Install, Upgrade & Remove Software. Also it has a very good community spirit, where everyone is helped by everyone else.
So I thought PCLOS would be a really solid base to start from, first of all I did a Hard Disc Install then started by removing unwanted packages and installing all the Video & Audio packages I wanted
After appearing in Distrowatch's newsletter in late Jan '06 after I uploaded a test ISO to Ibiblio for a few friends to try, i was showered with requests if it could be Downloaded, unfortunately Ibiblio deleted the ISO due to HD space so for several weeks no one could download it.
I eventualy got a few Mirrors sorted a list of can be found here
So comes to now really Mon 13th March, today Distrowatch have added VideoLinux to it's Database and yesterday VideoLinux moved to a new host with a new Domain.
The next Alpha release should be available to download in the next few weeks, so watch out for the release annoncement.
I would just like to say thanks for all have tried VideoLinux and the positive comments i have received, makes it all worth while.
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