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Apparently it used to be Mediainlinux which used to be medialinux which was developed by Opensourcelab, the Open Source Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park in Turin, Italy according to distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=artistx). The current project manager and team leader is Marco Ghirlanda according to his linkedin page, which is corroborated by the mention of only his name in most of distrowatch's news releases for this product.--> | Apparently it used to be Mediainlinux which used to be medialinux which was developed by Opensourcelab, the Open Source Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park in Turin, Italy according to distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=artistx). The current project manager and team leader is Marco Ghirlanda according to his linkedin page, which is corroborated by the mention of only his name in most of distrowatch's news releases for this product.--> | ||
<p> ArtistX is a free distribution who's aim is to "turn a common computer into a full multimedia production studio". The current version is based on the latest Ubuntu release. With multimedia developers in mind, its distinguishing feature is that it "includes almost all of the free multimedia software available for the GNU/Linux platform" so that someone who regularly uses graphics or audio development tools is ready to start right out of the box.<ref>http:// | <p> ArtistX is a free distribution who's aim is to "turn a common computer into a full multimedia production studio". The current version is based on the latest Ubuntu release. With multimedia developers in mind, its distinguishing feature is that it "includes almost all of the free multimedia software available for the GNU/Linux platform" so that someone who regularly uses graphics or audio development tools is ready to start right out of the box.<ref>http://www.artistx.org/site3/ ArtistX homepage</ref> | ||
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<p> ArtistX seems to have undergone a couple of name changes since its inception by the ''Opensourcelab'' team from the ''Open Source Laboratory'' of [http://www.vrmmp.it/ ''Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park''] | <p> ArtistX seems to have undergone a couple of name changes since its inception by the ''Opensourcelab'' team from the ''Open Source Laboratory'' of [http://www.vrmmp.it/ ''Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park''] as we see from the earliest news releases on distrowatch<ref>http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=artistx</ref>. Developed in Turin, Italy, Medialinux (which then became Mediainlinux) was originally based on Knoppix. | ||
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<p> Considering the type of company who developed this distribution it's easy to speculate why they decided to make it. If you were the head of a multimedia company, wouldn't you want to have your developers working with high quality software? Wouldn't it be great if that software was free and readily available? | <p> Considering the type of company who developed this distribution it's easy to speculate why they decided to make it. If you were the head of a multimedia company, wouldn't you want to have your developers working with high quality software? Wouldn't it be great if that software was free and readily available? | ||
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Revision as of 17:01, 18 October 2011
Background
ArtistX is a free distribution who's aim is to "turn a common computer into a full multimedia production studio". The current version is based on the latest Ubuntu release. With multimedia developers in mind, its distinguishing feature is that it "includes almost all of the free multimedia software available for the GNU/Linux platform" so that someone who regularly uses graphics or audio development tools is ready to start right out of the box.<ref>http://www.artistx.org/site3/ ArtistX homepage</ref>
ArtistX seems to have undergone a couple of name changes since its inception by the Opensourcelab team from the Open Source Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Multi Media Park as we see from the earliest news releases on distrowatch<ref>http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=artistx</ref>. Developed in Turin, Italy, Medialinux (which then became Mediainlinux) was originally based on Knoppix.
Considering the type of company who developed this distribution it's easy to speculate why they decided to make it. If you were the head of a multimedia company, wouldn't you want to have your developers working with high quality software? Wouldn't it be great if that software was free and readily available?
Installation/Startup
Basic Operation
Usage Evaluation
References
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