[BALUG-Talk] Progress at the school with Linux

[Bill Ward]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:
>
>> What Windows apps did he need?
>
>
> Power School: http://www.powerschool.com/
>
> Adobe Premier Pro
> Booksmart http://www.blurb.com/
> iTunes
> and one other whose name I have forgotten.
>
> Adobe Premier Pro could kinda sort be replaced by either Cinelerra or the
> Open Movie Editor.  Neither are a slick or have as many features.  Plus,
> (and most important) Adobe _paid_ him $1,000.00 to got to a training for one
> week, PLUS they _gave_ him a 1GB RAM dual core 1.3 GHZ Lenovo notebook PLUS
> gave the schoold $5,000.00 to spend on _any_ peripheral equipment that they
> wanted, such as digital cameras, etc.  However, I note that Adobe will be
> laying off people:
>
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122834329238077143.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business
>
> so hopefully Adobe won't be in a position to bribe the teachers again this
> year.
>
>
>> Could he have used WINE?  Or perhaps run windows in a VM?
>
>
> WINE will not support any of the apps he needs, AFAIK.  And remember, we
> have to knock them _all_ out before we can render Microsoft Windows
> obsolete.  Plus, he has said that he wants to get comfortable for at least
> one year before abandoning Microsoft Windows.
>
> VM is resource intensive, and not suitable IMHO for video editing and
> rendering, particularly on this machine.
>
> c u
>

Sounds like you're stuck then.  However for video editing, you should be
aware of Kino and KDEnlive which provide some movie editing abilities for
Linux, though neither is really "ready for prime time."  We had a Kino
presentation last month at PenLUG and just booked the same speaker again to
demo KDEnlive in March 09.
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