Both when it comes to 20^th cen­tury inter­na­tional rela­tions and tech­nol­ogy companies.

http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/04/msg00133.html

Iron­i­cally, I was look­ing for that soft­ware so I could see what could be done away from a MS Win­dows live pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ment (for an event mid-December this year). As it stands, I’m down­load­ing Dyne:bolic from another source (GNU.org’s US FTP server, actu­ally. One of Bigpond’s more often-saturated links), and will post here once I’ve fig­ured out if it’s worth “the risk” of using. And again if/when it gets used.

My biggest con­cern is it’s not going to like var­i­ous TV-out hard­ware on the two com­put­ers I want to use it on. Actu­ally, it only needs to work on one — the other is up to Ubuntu, but the soft­ware will be much the same. And yes, I now trust Ubuntu enough… kind of. Breezy is ridicu­lously sta­ble, though its mul­ti­me­dia per­for­mance can be a bit lack­lus­tre. I’m blam­ing the TNT2, though, and fig­ure it’ll pick up lots if I stick a GeForce 6600 in it. Fail­ing that… I’ll prob­a­bly use a lap­top, or some­thing else boring.

Basi­cally, I want the Dyne:bolic box to be a play­back machine, and the Ubuntu box is just gonna sit there and feed a nice sta­tic graphic (or maybe an ani­mated logo, if I get bored). The Ubuntu box will be my desk­top, because, whilst it’s fine for WWW stuff and the spot of word-processing… I have too much crap installed on it. Con­trary to pop­u­lar opin­ion, Win­dows is far eas­ier to trim services/background apps on for extra speed than Linux on the desk­top is. The amount of crap Gnome/Ximian/Nautilus leaves lying around is truly dis­gust­ing if you ever want to try and stop all the processes and just have some­thing work on its own. I could launch into a fail­safe X ses­sion and just run what I want from there, I guess… always a pos­si­bil­ity. Can’t do that on Win­dows (if some­one says “safe mode” I might stab them).

If any­one feels like lend­ing me a vision mixer (or well-specc’d com­puter!) for a week­end in Decem­ber… *looks strangely opti­mistic* Yeah, okay. Well, if any­one can get me a good deal on a vision mixer (MX-50 is my friend) for a week­end in December…

(Yeah, I’ve checked Digi­hire. They’re nice peo­ple, but cheaper would be bet­ter. Church/non-profit event.)