Hi :) I know, I only need to use Google, read and fix what's wrong. But I hope a 3.0 release version is better than the beta version.
A multimedia distro should be fine with standard multimedia applications, but the beta isn't. Right now I just want to watch a YouTube link a friend sent me, I don't want to set up my Linux. Some days ago I just wanted to listen a radio program by using TunaPie. It's really important to understand that life is to short to set up all standard stuff, especially if it's e.g. easy to watch a YouTube video running 64 Studio 2.1, because the flashplayer easily can be installed. I didn't test TunaPie with 64 Studio 2.1, but for Suse 11.1 I only had to install TunaPie and was able to listen to radio programs, without doing anything else. I can't understand why for 64 Studio multimedia becomes more and more complicated and for non-multimedia distros like Suse it becomes more easy. After installing TunaPie from the Hardy or Studio 3.0 beta repositories, there's still the need to set preferences, that should be set by default. With Suse TunaPie is fine when using the default preferences. I tried nearly the same with 64 Studio 3.0 beta: Audio Player: /usr/bin/gxmms2 (for Suse it's /usr/bin/xmms) Nsv (video) player: vlc Xterminal: xterm Streamripper: streamripper -t -u winamp2 -o never Web browser: firefox Path to rip directory: /home/spinymouse-sudo/.tunapie/streamripper (for Suse it's /home/spinymouse/.tunapie/streamripper) Max. streams to display in main list (50-500): 100 Default font size: 8 Server: [ ] Icecast [x] Shoutcast When I tried to listen to a radio program gxmms2's scroll display shows: "xmms2d is not running." Flashplugin-nonfree from the Hardy and Studio 3.0 beta repositories tries to download version 9 from a non-existing Macromedia server, so I tried the Hardy package from the Adobe site: r...@64studio:/home/spinymouse-sudo/Desktop# dpkg -i install_flash_player_10_linux.deb dpkg: error processing install_flash_player_10_linux.deb (--install): package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64) Errors were encountered while processing: install_flash_player_10_linux.deb This all might be easy solvable, it might only take 5 minutes to fix TunaPie and another 5 minutes to fix the flashplayer problem, but maybe it takes more time. At the moment I don't have any time and I wish to encourage to clear such trouble for the stable 3.0. For non-legal codecs, there should be a howto and the way those codecs needs to be included shouldn't change. Suse supporting pages changed the easy to install howto for codecs, but to be honest, there might be reasons to use some codec packages instead of other codec packages for codecs doing the same, that were suggested for older versions. I don't know which Linux I will use in the future, but I started reducing my Linux installs. With the Debian based 64 Studio 2.1 amd_64 install I had trouble with applications for 32bit, while Suse 64bit installs can run 32bit applications. Because of the 64 Studio 3.0 beta problems, seemingly caused by Hardy packages and settings (and not caused by 64 Studio packages, excepted of missing dependencies to make an ATI driver for the latest kernel) at the moment, I'm not fine with 64 Studio. Because of the incompetent and extremely arrogant packman package builder for real-time audio, I'm not fine with Suse at the moment, resp. I'm not up-to-date with it. But e.g. Suse is fine with PPPoE by default, while for the Ubuntu based 64 Studio even such basic things make a lot of work. Ubuntu might be the most downloaded distro, but I bet it's the most removed distro too. I now have got a lot of troubles I never had with any of the Linux I used before, especially how to set the graphics for each used DE and that the operating system crashes sometimes, while running video applications is not standard for Linux on my Computer. I wished to test 3.0 beta for rt-audio on my computer, but I might need to delay it, because I frittered away to much time with unneeded troubles. Seemingly it's less the 64 Studio 3.0 beta, but the alleged stable Hardy that causes troubles on my machine. You did good jobs for 64 Studio 2.1 and 64 Studio before 2.1, but changing to Ubuntu Hardy wasn't such a good decision. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
