[LUNI] Hello

[Scott Lockwood]

For a more non technical user, have you looked at freespire? They have
the click-n-run service (http://www.cnr.com/ ) which will also soon be
running on Ubuntu and other distro's, that allows you to click on the
app, even some commercial ones, that you want, and it then installs to
your machine and you can use it. Free apps as well as commercial apps
are available this way.

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:55 -0600, Tyler Stoffel wrote:
> Hi, I am a new member to this list. My name is Tyler Stoffel, I am a
> photojournalist based in Elk Grove Village. I have been using Mandriva 2006
> for about a year. I made the switch from WinXP last year because I left my
> job as a staff photog in NorCal and decided to go freelance. It was the GIMP
> that convinced me to make the switch, along with a few other pograms. On a
> daily basis, I was using OpenOffice, Audacity and the GIMP, as well as
> firefox and Mozilla composer, on both my Mac at work, and my HP laptop. I
> liked these apps better than Photoshop, Sonar, and MS Office, IE, etc. -- my
> alternatives -- and decided to swap my whole OS (I have never been much of a
> Windows user, professionally I have always used Macs, I just own an old HP
> laptop that I still can't afford to upgrade, and leaving my staff postion
> meant losing my work Mac, so I needed to find the best alternative to OSX,
> and for me, last year, Mandriva 2006 was it).
> 
> I do have a question for the list, I am looking for a multimedia editing app
> that will allow me to combine jpegs and mp3s into movies. If I were on a
> Mac, I would use Final Cut. I have a version of Cinelerra, which I like,
> except that it was developed for 64 bit machines, so on my 32 bit machine,
> it is unreliable. I also have an older version of Kino which came on my
> Mandriva distro, it claims it supports jpegs, but if I try to load a couple,
> I get an unrecognized file type message. Any ideas?
> 
> Tyler Stoffel
> 
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> www.tylerstoffel.com
> tyler.stoffel at gmail.com
> 773.827.4468
> 
> "The only regret I will have in dying, is if it is not for love." -- Gabriel
> Garcia Marquez