Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
me wrote: Hi, for dvd ripping you could use dvdrip, this is in the debian multimedia repositories: http://debian-multimedia.org/ for the games you can try wine or cedega, wine is in the repositories and cedega is commercial. But beware, it's not always easy to get Windows games

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,22.Jun.09, 09:24:59, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: As for the games, a question: Has anybody tried playing such a game (Unreal, etc) under a virtualization engine? Virtualbox for example? AFAICT virtualization doesn't do any 3d acceleration. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply,

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread thveillon.debian
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,22.Jun.09, 09:24:59, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: As for the games, a question: Has anybody tried playing such a game (Unreal, etc) under a virtualization engine? Virtualbox for example? AFAICT virtualization doesn't do any 3d acceleration. Regards, Andrei Hi, In

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
thveillon.debian wrote: And handbrake is a neat tool too for dvd ripping. But whatever the software you will need libdvdcss2 for commercial dvd's. Which shouldn't be an obstacle for someone who does similar stuff on an proprietary OS. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hello all I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server platform. My partner has a VISTA machine and she is always having problems with it. No surprises there I guess. I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz solution but I thought I would

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread me
Hi, for dvd ripping you could use dvdrip, this is in the debian multimedia repositories: http://debian-multimedia.org/ for the games you can try wine or cedega, wine is in the repositories and cedega is commercial. But beware, it's not always easy to get Windows games running on Linux.

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Fred Zinsli a écrit : Hello all I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server platform. My partner has a VISTA machine and she is always having problems with it. No surprises there I guess. I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Fred Zinsli wrote: Hello all I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server platform. My partner has a VISTA machine [snip] I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz solution but I thought I would ask some

Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Eike Lantzsch a écrit : On Sunday 21 June 2009, Fred Zinsli wrote: Hello all I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server platform. My partner has a VISTA machine [snip] I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz solution but I thought