On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:59:56AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
[...]
> You will want more than 32 MB of RAM because key software requires you
> be running X, and X really wants to run on a machine with more. I
> have done it on a 64 MB machine and it is a bit annoying. My notebook
> has 192 and that is really quite nice--so you don't need an infinite
> amount of RAM.
Judging from my own desktop experience, 64MB should be easly possible when
using a small Window Manager and not much else, but it looks like I should
definitely go for a machine that *can* have more (many of the oldies max out
at 64MB or even 40MB...). Good to know.
> My Vaio is not completely supported by Red Hat 7.2 and its internal
> speakers are too small to listen to directly.
[...]
The laptop will be connected directly to a good stereo, so I'd expect the
laptop's sound card to be the weakest link in that chain... ;-) On the other
hand, most internet radio stations (definitely of the ones I'm after)
broadcast with limited bandwidth anyway, so the sound isn't too good - but
hey, at least I can listen to them...
> I use XMMS for mp3 streams. I haven't convinced Mozilla and plugger
> to send all clicks for mp3's to it, some I have to fire through
> something like "lynx --source someURL.pls" to get a URL that XMMS will
> understand.
I'm actually thinking of using something like mpg321 (or what its name was)
from the command line if necessary, though xmms would be a lot easier to
use. Hm...
[...]
> For Quicktime and MS Windows Media Player streams I am up the creek
> and don't have a way to hear them. (Maybe running them under wine
> would help...) Luckily there are plenty of things to listen to with
> XMMS and Realplayer.
Well, at least one of the stations I specifically want to listen to doesn't
offer RealAudio streams (Windoze only), so I've already experimented with
that. 'mplayer' fits the bill perfectly - it does need a 'doze DLL to do so,
but once you have that one, it works well for WMP streams. Unfortunately, I
have to start it manually, as Mozilla freezes if I try to use mplayer as
helper application.
> As for CPU speed, I have a 645 MHz PIII in this thing and it works.
Definitely far too expensive... :-{
> In the little 64 MB machine I referred to earlier there was a
> 233-something Cyrix and it could also do it, I don't know how close to
> the edge it was.
So I'll put that one down as upper limit for now - thanks for the data
point!
[...]
> Let us know how it goes,
Most certainly will, though it might be some time before this goes life, as
I don't want to hurry buying that thing.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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