[CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 18:33:43 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>
>> I almost forgot to tell you that firewire support is disabled in the
>> distro kernel.  This is upstream's decision.
>
> wow :-(
>
> Why did they do that?

Well, this is just my guess -- enterprise class Linux is (used to be)
primarily for servers and therefore there is not much demand for
things like firewire and wireless and...

The situation *might* change if/when upstream start pushing toward the
desktop world.

Akemi



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