> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Chris Beattie > Sent: den 11 mars 2016 16:53 > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7?? > > On 3/11/2016 2:02 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >>> Looks like installing openshot 2.x on C7 isn't as trivial > >> > >> It is not trivial at all. The best way to handle this will be to find the > >> required packages in Fedora and rebuild them. > > > > So what's the easy way? > > > > Switch to Ubuntu or something? 8-O > > Maybe Fedora, maybe Ubuntu? It's more time-consuming than hard to build > a virtual machine these days, and it's not even that time-consuming. Is there > a distro that already has what you want all packaged up? Run it in a VM. > Take a snapshot first if you want to try something potentially system- > breaking or that's going to spew files everywhere. On a single-user machine, > the performance should be within a few percent of running on the bare > metal. So, if you test drive some beta software and it doesn't perform well > on a VM, it's probably not going to be much better running on a same-spec > physical machine. > > NB: I administer several hundred virtual desktops, so I chugged rather than > sipped the virtualization Kool-Aid. :-) Performance was just what I had in mind. Editing video is rather hard on both cpu, ram and hd-access. Maybe I should give Openshot a try in a VM. Nothing like real hard facts. 8-) Thanks for the feedback Chris! -- //Sorin