David wrote:
> Yes! Yes! Yes! Terminals must stay! 

I agree ! Of course, terminals are very powerfull, pleaseant tu use,
.... But we must remember our feeling the first time we were in front of
a terminal .... So the new user must be able to configure everything
using a GUI, and after some time, we could try to teach him that a shel
is not such an 'old stuff', that it's not so difficult, it's powerfull,
...

> I agree that I wish the multimedia was easier to setup and working, but
> that is about the only thing.  

I'm sorry, but with Mdk 8.0, I had NOTHING to do to setup sound.... It
worked out of the box without even one mouse click to configure
something related to sound... With 8.1, I had to correct some bugs, but
I hope that would be corrected (see my previous message). My mdk 8.0 has
been installed on 2 others computers, without ANY trouble related to
multimedia (of course, NOTHING to do to setup sound, and only the
channels to configure for the TV card. One of my friend told me how
easier it has been to install mdk compared to MS Windows, on the same
machine)

And for realplayer, .... that kind of stuff is included in the
powerpack. So I think the "mandrake de haute couture" is already out,
it's called "mdk 8.xx Powerpack". But of course, multimedia in general
has to be cleaned in the kernel, sound support would have to be cleaned,
... But this is more a devellopper's point of view, to prepare the
future and make it easier to manage sound in a clean way, but not an end
user's point of view (well, for people using multimedia for professional
purpose, it could be different).

Mathias
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