Quick question to you...Where did you find a linux version of Winamp?
Jim
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Vangrieken, Peter wrote:
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 01:50:55 -0600
> From: "Vangrieken, Peter " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Laptop install
>
> Hi, Sorry it took so long for me to reply, but I wasn't at work to read my
> mail. I'll try to get hold of XFce and blackbox and see how it performs. As
> to the speed issue: I tried turning of almost all system services, but the
> result was the same. It still feels as if linux first has to think a while
> about what command I've given it before it acts.Too bad. I have to use my
> laptop in a few days to demonstrate the use of Mpegs in a discobar (don't
> worry: I have all the originals!) but in linux (where everything seems to
> work a lot slower) it just seems to work a lot better than in windows :).
> The music keeps playing no matter what other tasks it is performing. I still
> have a lot of problems though keeping the sound card to work, but that will
> work just fine (with your help).
> Maybe you have a suggestion: I installed my soundcard (an ESS...) and it
> worked perfectly, until I started winamp again and changed some settings
> (can't exactly remember what I did exactly), but I have restored all
> original settings, and now Winamp just quits when I start to play music?
> I purchased a couple of CD's to try out different distro's (I now have Suse,
> RedHat, Debian and OpenLinux). Wich one would you recommend? I just want it
> to work fast and capable of playing music.
>
> thanks
> Peter
>
>
>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Ray Olszewski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: woensdag 23 februari 2000 8:53
> > To: Vangrieken, Peter ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Laptop install
> >
> > Well, Peter, there are lighter weight WMs around than what you use. Not
> > surprisingly, Lawson doesn't go in for such luxuries, but I too am a bit
> > spoiled spoiled. As he correctly recalled, I personally like (and use on
> > all
> > my Linux hosts) one called blackbox -- functional but uncluttered. I've
> > alos
> > used and lined ice. And there's an extremely lightweight one called XFce
> > (info at URL http://www.xfce.org/) that I haven't looked at.
> >
> > As to the speed of Linux ... I seem to recall you posting that concern
> > before. I (and I think others) suggested you look at whether you have
> > unnecessary processes running in the background, processes that either eat
> > CPU time or force you to use swap ( a major speed killer). I recall RH
> > loading a lot of unnecessary junk (a common failing in default
> > installation
> > choices, not one unique to RH).
> >
> > At 06:07 AM 2/23/00 -0000, Vangrieken, Peter wrote:
> > > Well, the swap partition turned out to be working: I started
> > >netscape (took me about 35 seconds to load!!) while monitoring 'top' on a
> > >terminal.
> > > I don't think the 'no-wm-approach' is something for me. I'm afraid
> > >windows already learned me the bad habbid to always use a graphical
> > >interface. I just find it very strange that Linux appears to be sooo slow
> > >compared to windows (I am now comparing win98 and linux redhat 6.0 with
> > >fvwm2 and so far windows is at the upper hand :((((() I just started up
> > >fsconfig from a terminal and it took about 15 seconds just to load. Well,
> > I
> > >can see some hard disk activity when I give the command and then the
> > >computer just waits for a while before it displays the window.
> > ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> > Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
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