[gst-devel] Linux distro preferred for gstreamer?

[Ron McOuat]

Thanks Florent for your kind advice.

Waking up this AM I realized what has been bothering me about the 
Fedora-RHEL versions, not to say bad things about them, they work very 
hard to produce a good product that I have been thankful to have for 
many years. The realization is during development of something one tends 
to need the newest releases. However, no matter how long I wait, a 
Fedora release will not seamlessly become a RHEL version without 
re-install. If I have to use Ubuntu 8.10 to get the latest then I can 
slide that system along to the next LTS e.g. 9.10 for a hypothetical 
number and if development is done on that system I can lock it in for 5 
years if server or 3 years if desktop. It all stems from the respective 
business models of the two organizations.

Your comments on a lighter server based gstreamer are very relevant to 
me as well. I have a Ubuntu Server 8.04 machine installed which is very 
light but with no gstreamer used for backup. On top of that can be 
installed a metapackage to turn it into Ubuntu-Gnome, Kubuntu-KDE or 
Xubuntu-XFCE which is a full meal deal, ok Xubuntu is a 3/4 meal if some 
desktop features are needed. It should be possible to build a 
metapackage that installs the gstreramer plus dependency essentials for 
server use. If X is left off the machine then there will be no display 
function so maybe it would need an X/non-X version. Of course I may get 
caught by other dependencies. When I get closer to completion with what 
I am working on I will look into how to build a metapackage. I don't 
believe it amounts to much more than a list of the needed components put 
into a wrapper.

Ron


Florent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been having a similar problematic, and we chose to stick to
> Ubuntu. Depending on your stable gst version requirement:
> * 8.04 will offer you LTS 0.10.18 gstreamer packages distribution
> * 8.10 will offer you 0.10.21 gstreamer packages distribution
>
> So far, we're very happy with Ubuntu hardware support and overall
> gstreamer stability; but i aknowledge the lack of a lightweight
> gstreamer-oriented distribution for dedicated multimedia solutions
> deployment. It would be great to start such a project !
>
> Florent
>
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