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Authoring on GNU/Linux
Authoring : Overview
18-Sep-2002/09-Jan-06
Overview
Text editing and authoring can benefit greatly from the advantages of
free software:
- By being able to modify the software, users can adapt it to
their particular artistic needs.
- Free Software is intrinsically a cooperative enterprise and
favors the emergence of virtual communities where a user can benefit
from the experience, help, and developments of other users.
- The availability of powerful applications at a reasonable cost
and with the freedom to redistribute them is a major advantage for
dissemination of creative works and for education.
From a more technical point of view, GNU/Linux offers a solid base
for authoring and editing applications, with its highly reliable
Unix-based multitasking kernel, its high quality networking support, and
the numerous development tools available.
Formerly, GNU/Linux was less suitable for visual authoring and
editing applications: lack Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), and lack of
standards for visual operating tools. This situation has improved
greatly in the last few years and GNU/Linux now supports a wide range of
visual operating, and offers at least two powerful Desktop environments
-- GNOME and KDE.
Credits
This document has been inspired by the paper "Demudi: The Debian
Multimedia Distribution" which was originally created by Francois
Déchelle (IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, <dechelle@ircam.fr<),
Günter Geiger (XDV, Wien, Austria, <geiger@epy.co.at>), and Dave
Phillips <dlphilp@bright.net>.
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