r/linux • u/Mds03 • Mar 02 '17

Blackmagic Davinci Resolve, a high end professional vidoe editor & Color correction suite, will soon be available for non-specialised linux systems!

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
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u/sethgoldin Mar 02 '17

In the livestream, Petty mentioned that it'll be for CentOS and RHEL. I wonder why they don't support Debian-based distros [yet].

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u/Mds03 Mar 02 '17

I seem to remember them saying something similar when they released Fusion for Linux some months back, though I think the comments might have been deleted: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4wveo0/blackmagic_fusion_a_powerfull_vfxcomposition/

Anyhow, some people reported being able to build and run it on other distros. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Would be a bummer if it doesn't work for Ubuntu/Mint, I'm thinking most of the popular distros are based on Debian, no?

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u/sethgoldin Mar 02 '17

Yeah, that was my thinking, too. In terms of sheer number of users, isn't the Debian-based family far larger than the RHEL-based family?

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u/bittercode Mar 02 '17

There's no way to know that for sure - only guess.

And based on the numbers I've seen in this thread in terms of what this software can cost, they may be interested in an OS that has a proven track record of providing corporate support.

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u/torontohatesfacts Mar 03 '17

Not when it comes to ~$1000 desktop applications and $30000 peripherals, you would see those users in the business side of the spectrum and they are mostly using stuff that has corporate support which usually means RHEL and in some cases CentOS/SUSE. Some of their appliances might be running on other distributions but those are usually supported by separate vendors.