State of DisarraySo in lieu of that, I figured it would be a convenient time to switch Linux distro from Debian to whatever doesn't suck. I tried Sabayon first, a Gentoo-based source distro synonymous with an egg and milk-based Italian dessert. The latter description is probably pretty suitable, although I'm sure milk-based desserts would install fewer KDE apps. Unless they were milK-based. Anyway, basically it filled my harddrive with Krap, refused to get graphical acceleration (or even graphiKal acceleration) and while I could install GNOME, it didn't work properly. Probably an allergiK reaction. I don't think much of KDE...
Well, that was awful, so now I'm using Fedora 7. Pretty sweet and it's nice to see the latest GNOME at last - Debian was three or four versions old. But it's terrible for media. I'm yet to get MP3 support, and DVDs won't work either, although I'm inclined to think that's Totem's fault...
Last time I rebooted, it gave me this message on startup:
'/home has gone 49710 days without being check, check forced'. That's about 136 years. ^^ Really, Fedora? Has it really been that long?
Sorry! Nobody here is interested in all that, I'm sure. As for the art front, I've got a couple of digital bits I might put up, and a lot of traditional. When I get around to it. No tablet support yet, but I've not tried to set it up.
Tired
Devious Comments
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The Cat of Dragons has arrived. Who's ready for a bit of fun? *grins*
"I give up. I see not point in living if I can't be beautiful." - Howl
Just popped onto the old dA to check my dAMessages.
Yeah, I can never get Totem to play DVD, since it uses gstreamer. I don't know if it's in the repos, but Ubuntu has a Xine version, which does play DVD. I use Xine-ui for DVDs, and everything, since Totem sucks. You might have some luck with VLC.
Good luck playing mp3s with GNOME apps, since they'll want the gstreamer Ugly pack, or fluendo's mp3 codec. I believe Audacious and Banshee come with their own codecs, though, so unless you're using SUSE*, they'll work.
I know you hate dA, but they've fixed the anthro type in the submission list.
I have mechanics on Tuesday!
Take care,
Raeth
* SUSE cripples its media apps and the only thing that plays mp3 is RealPlayer which is kindly pre-installed for you.
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No dress code - no speed limit - just the euphoric sound of HARD HOUSE.
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No dress code - no speed limit - just the euphoric sound of HARD HOUSE.
I know I had a problem with gstreamer when it came to getting the sound to work (wasn't loud enough), but I believe the problem was fixed when I updated the ALSA driver.
I also haven't tried playing DVD. There's still a bit I need to figure out about Linux, i'm just really sick of Windows and wanted to get away from the dark side.
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The Cat of Dragons has arrived. Who's ready for a bit of fun? *grins*
"I give up. I see not point in living if I can't be beautiful." - Howl
I get the impression artists (well, everyone) think that Linux isn't much good for art stuff, but there are some pretty good apps for that kind of thing: GIMP for raster/photo/painting, Inkscape for vector and Blender's a film-grade 3D app.
If you're not keen on GIMP, try installing the 2.3 development version. It's quite stable and is better than 2.2, and the menus are in much better locations.
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No dress code - no speed limit - just the euphoric sound of HARD HOUSE.
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The Cat of Dragons has arrived. Who's ready for a bit of fun? *grins*
"I give up. I see not point in living if I can't be beautiful." - Howl
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