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Subj : Re: Music Sites For Linux
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Ragnarok
Date : Sun Oct 16 2005 15:42:00

ROB MCCART wrote:

> CP>Since I first posted I've had a couple 'breakthroughs'. While I still
> haven't
>   >gotten any custom made players for  particular sites, I am happily
>   >running streaming media(Live365) through XMMS and got Opera set up to
>   >run it whenever click to open a .pls file. The live365 site is a bit
>   >slow so it feels like a bit of a hack. I think if I looked into it a
>   >little more I could configure
>   >Opera to handle a lot of  that stuff automatically. I just haven't had
>   >much luck with plugins and the such for some reason.
> 
> It looks like XMMS will work fairly well once you find all the
> drivers for it. It just takes a bit of work to hunt them down.
> 
> CP>I know I can only speak for myself on this, but Mandriva is the only
> distro
>   >I've had luck with when it comes to hardware detection out of the box.
>   >It's been a while since I tried other distro's, but for some reason Red
>   >Hat has rarely worked well with any of my hardware. It might just be
>   >me, but I have heard of others having hardware problems with even
>   >recent releases of Red Hat Don't know if it's the distro or the
>   >hardware, but it kind of suprises me.
> 
> 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..
> 
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