[CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??

[Sorin Srbu]

> -----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!

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//Sorin