In his latest Michael’s Minute, Lindows.com founder and president Michael Robertson announced the forthcoming LindowsOS MP3.com Edition, which appears to be the Membership Edition bundled with 12 complete CDs. A collaboration between Robertson’s previous effort and his current project, it’s the first mainstream Linux distribution to focus on audio as a major component. Though it doesn’t appear to be as complete as the Red Hat and Debian multimedia editions currently in beta, once again, Lindows.com is directly addressing the needs of a standard desktop user.
Lindows.com to Offer MP3.com Edition
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How’s the install? It looks as if have to install the DeMuDi beta over top of “a working Debian system.” Not exactly convenient, though maybe at this stage of the beta, they only want experienced Linux users (as opposed to the musicians that actually make up their target audience.)
Agnula/Demudi seem worthy of a whole news story/profile — certainly more so than an edition of Lindows that comes with free music. How about it, editors?
DeMuDi can be downloaded from agnula.org. I encourage you to download it, install it, and submit a review. We’d be more than happy to publish it.
I always heard a lot of criticism against Lindows, but I must say (being a Gentoo and Debian user), than I just clicked to the Click-N-Run section of the lindows homepage, and I was very impressed! Thinking about novice users, they have a done such a good job to make things easier. Just check here http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_useagent.php and see how nicely they explain the steps to install new software.. Wow!
I think other distributions can learn some things from lindows.
Seems the better value here are the 12 CD’s and not the OS. Maybe they could come up w/ better music choices. Metal, hop, rap, alternative, jazz, country and easy listening don’t exactly blend well together. At this rate, MS is going to start bundling their OS with Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” songs and videos.
“At this rate, MS is going to start bundling their OS with Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” songs and videos.”
That’s so Windows 95. Don’t you mean Madonna? 😉
I had heard about DeMuDi/ReHMudi before, but hadn’t seen where I could download it. After going to their site (via google’s cache – thank god for google!) and finding an FTP site, and spending about 5 minutes tracking down the ISO images of ReHMudi, I’ve got the first three CD’s downloading now (I assume it’s like most redhat installs – just the first 3 are needed. They are all going at about 35kB/sec, and have about 3-4 hours remaining. My wife works tonight, so maybe I’ll get to install it tonight while I wait for her to get home. I’ll be sure to take notes –
I tried, quickly, demudi. I was relatively deceived, as there is no real facitilites to install a debian distrib easier. The install process is just the normal, woody one ( 3.0rc1, I think ).
To me, it just seems to be a debian with GNOME and a lot of packages for sound. But it is a 0.9 beta version, so I think it will be better, soon ( nevertheless, I was suprised there was no soun selection in tasksel, for example. Dor an audio-oriented distrib, it seems weird. It musn’t be too diffuclt to “include” existing packages into tasksel ).
I’ve been using DeMuDi for a while (its been available as an apt-source for a long time) – I’ll write a review soon. My first impressions have been good – but there could be some improvements.
Oh, and the agnula servers seem heavily overwhelmed. You can download an demudi iso on the http://ftp.agnula.org, but the ftp server is dead most of the time I checked.
I assume they need some mirrors.
….I can’t be all that enthusiastic about this.
Now, all of a sudden, a contributing artist (even one who isn’t expecting amy money back for the contribution) will only be allowed to show 3 songs on her home page, unless she gives MP3.COM $4.99 a month.
There are a lot of experimental-music contributions to MP3.COM, notably many in the “microtonal music” category, that are simply going to disappear, because the contributors weren’t expecting to pay for having them there.
So, as a free-music enthusiast and contributor, I can’t see why I should spread the news around about this collaboration.
If anyone from MP3.COM is monitoring this, please take note, and tell your bosses about it. I do plan to write them myself, once I get all my “ducks in a row.”