Mmm... Good to know! I mean, it's never a bad thing to acquire new knowledge.
Personally i just want my analog video capture to serve really useful tasks, like to remove unwanted dark bands and broadcast as DLNA. It turns out the VLC Media Player is available, including for Porteus as i was lucky to verify recently, so i can use it to turn my transformer tablet into the portable wireless TV i once wished for, around 1995 if i recollect memories correctly... But right now it's the HardInfo application i must figure out, because i already accumulated a few outputs from Linuxium, XUbuntu and also Fedora i guess. It's there, somewhere.
I've noticed the v4.0 porteus with a relatively recent 5.4 kernel and wondered what's the advantage of continuing development while current version is 5.
Sure enough there's some fair reasoning behind these choices and i'd find interresting to learn more about it, because my motive for possibly relying on Porteus instead of other flavours as evoked above is the potential gain of processing power, which would free resources for time-critical tasks like video (nobody likes watching crappy TV), right? If v4.0 still provides sufficient kernel support and makes VLC work better, both for viewing and streaming, then i can see an advantage right there. In any case i found Fedora felt so busy (read "
heavy") i had to lower expectations to XUbuntu, but not before i discovered Linuxium which actually booted fine.
By the way, IMO if one is after a "mission" for his favourite Porteus i'd say an expert system to handle booting issues universally would be a relief. There are WiFi routers running Linux after all, this must be as lightweight as it gets. Or does the Porteus advantage reside in just too many essential components missing for entertainment purposes? Which reminds me that QEMU running Windows will solve the missing drivers issue through external USB connections. Maybe that CherryTrail Full-HD tablet can do it but i lack enthousiasm when it comes to my older Acer Aspire One "D250" (Atom N270), built for Windows XP, with only 1 low-consumption 32-bits processor core from Redmond in 2008... Battery pack long dead, 1024 x 600 resolution - glasses not included.
What should i do? Visit the next geek hardware store and search for a Linux tablet, still not featured with video capture so this would come with the additional expense of a provider switch to get tablet-portable TV directly supported, via more gadgets like AppleTV, NetFlix and whatnot!
The tablet already works fine as a TV, at full capacity when a DLNA server as the HDHomeRun ATSC tuner is plugged-in, for example. Microsoft's abandon of legacy OSes eventually translates as trashing formerly-functional hardware; "save the planet" would make some nice "mission" too!! Which could make a great "niche" for porteus, would it not? ...
Why? Why do they offer it and why would anyone want it??
But until then Linux Edge may fill the gap fine.
