On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:51:51 +1100 "Amos Shapira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07/02/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I tried Freespire as part of the plan to get my friend set up. It > > seemed like a good idea since he is into the music/video stuff. > > > Are you aware that there are quite a few distributions geared exactly > towards that niche? (can't remember any right now, but look at > Distrowatch or even the Wikipedia page which lists many distros, it > mentions this) Well, Freespire/Linspire are often mentioned as being able to play/watch anthing that Windows can. I may have stated the case wrong: he's not into editing/creating. Just watching video clips and listening to music. Otherwise, all around computer tasks. Freespire was interesting: it "saw" both of my sound cards, just couldn't make a noise through them. > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
