Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 11:51:46 03/06/05
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On March 06, 2005 at 12:54:09, Peter Skinner wrote: >On March 06, 2005 at 11:59:02, Andrew Williams wrote: > >>I think I had 9.0 before 9.2. I use KDE. I never really perceive my PC to be >>slow; it has 1GB of RAM and it always seems fast enough. I also have an iBook >>with an 800MHz CPU (I'm typing this on it) and that also is fast enough for what >>I want to do, although PM doesn't like it much. > >Well I think I might download the 9.2 DVD and see what it is like. Gentoo is >nice, but _constantly_ needs tinkering with. Also the updates for it almost >always break something, and the patch to fix the break, breaks something else :) > >When I installed Gentoo from a stage 3 install, it took forever. The compiling >process was like watching paint dry. :) It is mighty speedy though once setup. > >It would be nice to get a distro that "just works", and doesn't need constant >tinkering. I like messing with it, but when nearly every patch breaks something >it is tough to like. > >I also heard SuSe removed mp3 support. I converted my entire collection of music >to mp3 format(14,000 songs), and bought a nice set of Polk Audio 5.1 speakers to >go along with my Turtle Beach sound card. Total peak output by the "system" is >about 990 watts. That is 300 watts better than what I used for a home stereo >before. > >It would be a shame to have to recompile in all the support for it. I spent a >good deal of money getting my old lp's and 45's put onto CD a few years ago. So >I WANT mp3 support. :) > Don't bother with SUSE then! I think (don't remember) that this is one of the things I had to add afterwards. It does work now. Have a look at Simply MEPIS. This includes all codecs etc and is a live CD. I heard that there were some problems with Simply Mepis 3.3, but if you can get it working as a live CD, there is an option on the desktop to install it on the hard drive - a very nice approach to selecting a distribution. Andrew
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