Subj : Music Sites For Linux To : ROB MCCART From : Christopher Perrault Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 03:07 pm Re: Music Sites For Linux By: ROB MCCART to CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT on Sat Sep 03 2005 06:21 pm > I find it frustrating that so often things that worked fine in a > previous release suddenly don't in a new release, like instead of > adding to the 'detectables' database they substitute new ones for > old ones. Admittedly I'm not much experienced at this and have > really only tried things like Knoppix to do a stand-alone startup > of Linux to see what it was like but, on exactly the same computer, > one distro will work and then the next won't and then the next > is anyone's guess.. No doubt doing a full install of any distro > and then searching for whatever is missing I could probably get > most of the hardware working but, unless you already know how to > troubleshoot from a Linux command line, you often end up staring > at a black screen.. > This is why I tend to hesitate with upgrades. I am upDATING my system at the moment ironically, but I am still at 9.2 . I don't get the people who go after bleeding edge stuff. Unless your doing it specifically to do beta testing, that's all your going to spend your time doing. I really milk both my hardware and software once I get it where I like it. Also, I agree XMMS is something of a charm. I'm seeing all the related packages now that I'm doing the reinstall of the OS, and I'm guessing I didn't install them all before. There is so much stuff on this system that I'll probably discover half of it by accident. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////// Chris Perrault ////////// ////// THE DIAMOND MINE BBS ////////// ///// Telnet bbs.dmine.net ////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --- þ Synchronet þ Diamond Mine Online BBS - bbs.dmine.net .