linux

My home-made Ubuntu server is dead...

I've been waiting a long time for a good, simple and easy to use Non Linear Video Editor (NLVE) to emerge on Linux.  Every time I have to edit a small home video from miniDV footage on Linux, I have to fight with Kino and it's unfriendly interface. Yes, Kino does the job but it's painful.  I've tried other Open Source NLVE also with mitigate success (KDEnlive, Cinerella, etc.) 

There is nothing out there that "scratch my itch": I need a consumer level NLVE on Linux to simply do the following steps:

SFGate.com has published an interesting article about the relation between the netbook explosive growth and Microsoft's profits going down.

Because most of the netbooks are not powerful enough to run Vista they must run either Linux or Windows XP.  So, Microsoft had to cut on their profits by selling XP to netbook's manufacturers - at a fraction of the cost of Vista - or watch Linux taking some more market share.

In his article "Windows 7: Microsoft's Linux killer?" Preston Gralla pretend that the next version of Windows could be a Linux killer.

Last night, I was searching the Internet for contact information to reach Markus Moenig, creator of MainActor and founder of MainConcept (he is now CTO at DivX), and I found his profile on Linkedin.