Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:46:50 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted Message-ID: <20040305164650.2de84cad@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <9C6E1232-6EED-11D8-9CD3-000A959A1868@mac.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0403011839470.3269-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200403050615.55106.dgw@liwest.at> <200403051009.20729.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200403052226.19659.dgw@liwest.at> <9C6E1232-6EED-11D8-9CD3-000A959A1868@mac.com>
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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:39:41 -0800 John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com> wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Daniela wrote: > > > I see that a lot of people nowadays are fiddling around with video > > and graphics processing, DVD ripping and the like. > > Oh, you're talking about everything I use Mac OS X for. Things like > iTunes, Final Cut, Photoshop and the like? > > I love FreeBSD, but the applications it runs need a little catching > up to do if it wants to compete with its cousin. On that sort of > desktop, anyway. LOL, for home use... not really... For video, avidemux2 handles simple tasks very nicely... When it comes to DVD ripping, it hard beat mplayer and the like... Or if you want something simpler there is dvdrip... For images there is gimp-devel and cinepaint, both work nicely for home use... I honestly can't think of any advantages, other than apparent commercial support... For itunes? what part do you want? exporting? well we can do that far bloody better... nfs, smb, and then there is some awesome streaming stuff some where too, forget where... The part where it begins to fall apart is in the area organizing and cataloging... that still requires a bit of manual intervention when it comes to moving stuff... For audio ripping, there is grip...
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