Re: [PLUG] Without OS X

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:47  PM, christophe barbe wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:52:48PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > Right now OS X sort of fills a niche that Linux hasn't quite grown 
> > into
> > yet.  The freedom of Linux does have its downsides, including the lack
> > of any meaningful integration of software components or software with
> > hardware.  I *can* do many of the same things in Linux that I can do 
> > in
> > OS X but in Linux it is sometimes made a lot more convoluted than it
>
> I fail to see what would take more times to be done under linux than
> under Mac OS-X. Perhaps an example to illustrate would help.

How about:

1. Pull all the pictures off of my digital camera and import into my 
photo software
2. Run over each image to get the color levels, etc. straightened out
3. Output a slideshow in Quicktime format with music behind it.

Takes about 2 minutes on OS X...  The process is:

1. Plug in camera
2. Wait for iPhoto to finish launching
3. Switch to Import Mode
4. Click Import
5. Click on each photo and do a "One-click Enhance" on each.
6. Click to output a slide show, choose my background music and save it.

On Linux, I'd be stuck checking to see if I can get gphoto or somesuch 
to slurp the images off of my camera.  Once doing that, I'd have to 
manually do all 5 or 6 operations that iPhoto's one-click enhance does, 
then figure out a way to output the slideshow as a movie file of some 
sort.

I don't know of anything on Linux that can output slideshow movies like 
that...  Don't get me wrong, I love Linux.  I use it on all of my 
servers, but I just don't think it compares to OS X for a desktop 
platform.

What do I like about using Linux for my servers?  It just works, and 
works well.  Same goes for OS X, but for the desktop...
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Jason Costomiris <><
E: jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org / W: http://www.jasons.org/
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