On 1/7/07, Matt Nesteruk <
matt.nesteruk@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with you Trent.
>
> Linux is still lacking in the desktop department. The desktop looks pretty,
> but lacks a complete, easy install.
>
> I too got my parents a mac.
>
> -Matt
>
My mother uses Ubuntu (or as she would put it, her email, the
internet, and word). Seems like the two extremes are covered, the abs
beginners and the power users / techies.
- Ben
>
>
>
> On 1/3/07, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley@qwest.net> wrote:
> > My test play of the BBC finally worked.
> >
> > I had to Google for a Linux sound How-To. That led me to suspect alSa
> since I
> > always run KDE. I found a check box to sleep alsa, but that didn't seem
> to
> > help. Non-KDE sound still wouldn't work. Then, guessing that ameroK was
> a
> > KDE application I found I could play an MP3 file. Further poking around
> > showed that ameroK was simply wrapping Helix and Helix had commercial
> > extensions.
> >
> > So I removed Firefox's reference to RealPlayer in its plugins list. Then
> I
> > searched for amerok in my file system. After that I redirected Firefox to
> > launch ameroK instead of RealPlayer10 to play a streaming *.ram file.
> > Finally, streaming sound.
> >
> > And all this was with a fairly idiot friendly distribution, SuSE 10.0.
> >
> > Somedays I really question how ready for the desktop Linux really is.
> >
> > It also reminds me why I got my Mom a Mac.
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