<quote who="Buddrige, David">
> I would like to use it to watch DVD movies. I note that there are several
> Linux/DVD projects; does anyone know how mature these are.
Right now, I'd recommend Xine. It seems to have the best performance to pain
ratio. MPlayer is very fast, but the developers are not very welcoming (I'm
being particularly kind here), whilst Ogle and VLC are not quite as fast or
functional.
> Also, given that the DVD drive is instead of having a CD-drive, will it act
> like a normal CD player for me to install the OS using standard Debian CD's
Yeah, it's a normal CD drive too.
The DVD drive will probably be your least concern, given that laptops can
have some pretty odd hardware in them. Make sure you check out the sound
card, modem, ethernet chipset and video chipset.
Or get an iBook. ;-)
- Jeff
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