Debian Conference Video DVDs Released 25
An anonymous reader writes "Ben Hutchings, on behalf of the video team, has announced the availability of this years Debian Conference videos. From the announcement: 'They include all formal sessions from Debian Day and DebConf, plus the group photos, the video team BoF, and some documentary videos made by Gabriella Coleman. The DVD images are now available for download along with the source videos, as are the software and menu design used for them.'"
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TFA just mentions 'DebConf sessions', so I'm not sure what that involves (a little bit of all, I'm guessing).
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Yes, I get it. It's free as in freedom. (Score:4, Funny)
If you'll pay travel expenses, the Debian developers will even come to your house and show you the entire video editing process step-by-step.
Oh yes, that's positively captivating! (Score:3, Funny)
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Disclaimer: I know calculus but I havn't the slightest idea how the gameplay mechanics of D&D operate.
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Or if you want to be really crazy...what's the distribution of the sum [ d1 + (d2)/2 + (d3)/3 + (d4)/4 +
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Better than counting sheep .... (Score:3, Funny)
I haven't seen any of them but the title alone is enough to induce somnolence.
Now if it was called Debbie Does Debian or something like that it might be a best seller
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We're all still hoping that this will happen someday...
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That isn't what Debbie told me.
I'll wait (Score:4, Funny)
A real comment?? (Score:4, Informative)
NTSC: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-mee
PAL: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-mee
4.3 Gigs each!
By navigating the menus in the one of the first couple links you can get an overview of the content: Basically the lectures/whatever that were given at debconf.
You can only trust Debian to not only release DVDs, but the source behind making them.
But can I use apt-get to get them? :) (Score:2)
For some reason... (Score:1)
How disappointing
Video DVDs? (Score:2)
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Isn't that a rather redundant term? After all, wouldn't one expect that a DVD contains video?
No. DVD's are used to store lots of things other than video. The studios like to call them "Digital Video Disc" but the computer and software industries have tended to favor "Digital Versatile Disc" instead. And in this case the (video) DVD is coming from a source (Debian) that has previously released many DVDs....the vast majority (all?) of which contained only non-video content. Had the title just been "Debian
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Which raises the question - why the hell was such an ambiguous name chosen in the first place? Anybody who thought that people would actually call them Digital Versatile Discs after the video stores were full of movies on DVD, was just not thinking. How many regular people even know that name, let alone use it? besides, "Versatile" is a pretty clunky and unattra