Comments for Settling in with the penguin

Comment from Stewart Johnson on 2003-10-02

2003-10-03T04:59:30Z

Hi Brad --

You will probably want to check out mplayer and it's GUI front ends for playing every kind of video under the sun, including DVDs. It's much, much nicer than xine.

Also, same goes for K3B for CD burning. Much nicer to use than xcdroast, but uses the same command-line tools under the hood.

HTH,
Stewart

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Comment from sean on 2003-10-03

2003-10-03T17:36:13Z

mplayer is nice, and it can support many more formats than xine. I say "can" because it doesn't 'out of the package' (software package in this case, rather than a real box). It takes a little work to get it running everything the way you want, but it is worth the effort.]]>

Comment from sean on 2003-10-03

2003-10-03T18:10:46Z

What about osx2x [http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/osx2x/] in synergy's place. Or some sort of combination if you also have MS Windows in the loop.

"osx2x is a small Mac OS X application that lets you control an X Windows server using your mac's mouse and keyboard. So if you happen to have a mac and an X Windows machine on your desk you only need to use a single keyboard and mouse! "

Other ideas would involve x2vnc [http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/x2vnc.html], and so on. That is if VNC's performance is ok for you.

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Comment from Roshambo on 2003-10-06

2003-10-06T21:13:22Z

Do you use Gnome by default? I've noticed Redhat provides KDE in kind of a crippled state.]]>

Comment from on 2003-10-09

2003-10-10T03:58:04Z

Re: Macintosh/OS X

Looks like you only held out for just over a week :-)

What happened to your willpower

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