ok, at least some comments from my experience....
Firewire... you should have no problem these days with
firewire. I made firewire work under linux around the time
the 2.4.18 kernel was released. Everything _should_ be
available, in a modern linux dist, for firewire to work. Then
again I did this on redhat.
Digital cameras, DV cams. My DV cam was firewire enabled,
so once I got the firewire stuff working the DV cam was all
good. For DV editing etc, I found kino worked well for capture,
and broadcast2000 for some editing. I dont think broadcast2000
is available anymore, but I am certain kino is. I was getting
framerates comparable to windows, for DV capture and playback.
Digital cameras were a little different, depending on what type
of digital camera you have. Of course I recieved some completely
wacked out cheapo cam from a relative, which had zero support
and some drivers from the stone age. I managed to actually get it
to work, and a few others using gphoto (I think thats what it was).
Gphoto had drivers for all kinds of digital cameras that were sworn
not to work under linux. Then again these days it might be a little easier.
Oh yeah one more for video editing. Mainactor looked really decent,
but is/was a commercial product.
Getting PPP to work for your modem. I have to say I havent set up
a modem under linux or BSD in years. I know in redat they give you
some gui to set it up. I used that once, it worked, I went on my way.
As for slackware, I have no idea anymore. I know great help huh?
Lets see, Music editing software. I found that Audacity, at the time, was
about the best sound editing software I could find for free. I have heard
of others that people thought were great, but they either never worked
for me, or compiling was a complete nightmare (for me). Audacity has
good basic editing, can handle large files, record large files, and even
multitrack. I would look at that program. Also once again if you can get
ahold of broadcast2000 ( I think they stopped offering it), it had some
decent features as well.
Cd recording tools.. I used xcdroast :P ...... it worked.... there are a
few packages nowdays. Gnome has their own which comes with
the gnome software. I would think KDE has one as well.
On the lernel side, I have heard a lot of good about the 2.6 kernels, but
I havent tried them myself (bleh I should).
Also for DV cams, there should be a good site on the web about
linux and DV cams. There was one I used back when I was setting mine
up (years ago now) but I cant remember the name.
Oh well, if for nothing other than encouragment, thats what I have to
add. Sorry if its scattered, this is one of those "I got hammered last night,
got home at 2:30am, had to be up at 6am for work" days.
-bobzub
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