Don Livingston wrote:
> I just installed Mandrake 8.0. So far I like what I see in the new KDE.
> Kmail is much improved, especially with the better support for foreign
> character sets. (In my case I need KOI8-R for Russian.) Konqueror is
> excellent so far. The media player, noatun, crashes on me constantly,
> though, when I try to play .wav files. The older version didn't. Wonder
> what's up with that?
Yeah, noatun (and the aRts layer in general) are *VERY* powerful and
super-cool... but I really wish that the developers would spend more
time getting it stable rather then putting on yet another feature of
the week. I get quite a bit of email on both sides of noatun ("It's
the greatest thing since sliced bread" and "It crashes on startup").
This is one issue, though, where I won't be doing any fixing myself...
I don't even have a soundcard installed on any of my Linux systems
these days :-/
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