It\u2019s obvious I get a lot of enjoyment about playing around in Linux. I see I can use it in many ways that were not possible when I first got interested in what Linux could do. In those early days I just wanted something to run packet radio BBS for my ham station. A friend of mine Fred Sole WB8LVP got me into early Slackware distro\u2019s<\/a><\/span><\/span> (Slackware is still alive and kicking) as he was using it for the packet BBS he had running. Wow! Everything was legally free to use\u2026<\/p>\n

I just made a video using nothing but the free tools available in today\u2019s Linux. I created a series of 41 photo slides each with a one second view and an audio counting process (me) from zero through 40. It runs for 42 seconds as the last slide is 2 seconds long. (Yes 42 because zero was also a second long.)<\/p>\n

I used tools called, the \u201cGimp<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u201d image editor, \u201cPiTiVi<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u201d video editor, and \u201cAudacity<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u201d audio editor. They got the job done maybe not as all-in-one smoothly as the Adobe<\/a><\/span><\/span> Suite, but you can\u2019t beat free if you have ever priced Adobe<\/a><\/span><\/span>. Adobe also isn\u2019t ported to Linux and probably never will be\u2026<\/p>\n

There are some \u201cfree\u201d tools like this for other OS\u2019s (like Windows Live) but the OS isn\u2019t free.<\/p>\n

It took about an hour or so to build the slides in Gimp, create the sound track and combine all in video. It\u2019s a \u201cproof\u201d of how many squares can be counted in a line drawing. Here is the \u201call Linux\u201d video:\u00a0
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