I will agree and disagree here. The commercials are aimed at computer users
that are not Linux users, so as to lure them into the realm of the penguin.
However the Divx format would have been nice, but there is the choice or
Real Player for Linux and/or wine with a player of choice! If I am not
mistaken it is possible to install and run media player with wine and I know
Quicktime will work. I have not personally tried it as I am using an old
Compaq with just not enough RAM to make it happen, but I am using quite a
few MS apps. via wine and I have no issues.. Oh yeah I am using SuSE 8.2. I
have also used RH 5.2, 6, 7, 7.1, Mandrake6.1, 7.1,8.0, Corel Linux,
Caldera, Turbo Linux 6.0, Knoppix, Linux on a floppy ";)" and others. I have
not had the liberty of trying Debian as of yet, but I may if I decide to
make a box purely for server use as this is where I see Debian's best
useage. This is not a message to get heated replies, but I have been using
Linux for a while, and I feel the movement is finally getting what it
deserves, commercials by a "Known leader in the computer world" What will we
all say after the acquisition of Novell and SuSE and the newest release of
Sun's Java start hitting the media, and we have better commercials. This is
just the beginning folks. Take a deep breath because Linux is about to make
a jump to the Desktop market and there will be newbies all around us, as
well as games! I have been waiting for this moment since my first install in
early 1998 of Red Hat 5.2 and my favorite irc chat room was on the linux.com
server. Times have changed and we had better change with it, because it is
us who are making the changes possible....
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From: "David Huerta" <
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Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Linux and Football
Still, it wouldn't have hurt to have added a Divx file or something.
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+ David "Huertanix" Huerta
+ DeVry Linux User Group
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2004, at 7:27 PM, der.hans wrote:
>
> > Am 11. Jan, 2004 schwätzte David Huerta so:
> >
> >> The commercials are also at
> >> http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html
> >
> > Hmm. Based on the available formats I'd guess they still don't get
> > it...
>
> Or they aren't preaching to the choir. I'd say the formats are right
> for people who have yet to try Linux.
>
> Just my $.02
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