With major hardware vendors shipping systems preinstalled with Ubuntu, and the extremely hassle free Ubuntu installer, more users have, if not started mainstream usage, atleast experimenting with this flavor of Linux. Here are some open source (read: free) stuff that will get you started with Ubuntu 7.04.
1. Amarok Amarokis a unix/linux music player with a nice interface, playlist manager, 10 band equalizer and also automatically fetches your album cover art.
sudo apt-get install amarok
2. VLC
With your music needs sorted out with the above, now to your videos. You needn’t look any further than VLC, by far the best cross platform media player. You could also install the VLC plugins and use it as a streaming server.
The last month was a period of experiments with my computer, starting with the fact that I was running on a ‘going to break’ HDD and the DST short test was failing repeatedly. So before anything, I backed up all my data (which also includes my windows partition) after running openSUSE in recovery mode; and trust me it was quite a breeze, reinforcing my crush on Linux. Later that day I called DELL support and they promptly shipped me a replacement hard drive one working day later, but the OEM OS that id also asked them to ship was going to take a few days longer as the package which includes WinXP, device drivers, sonic, win backup and a few others were flying in from Netherlands. Nevertheless I was happy with their prompt and ‘no questions asked’ service, afterall I guess ive already paid them quite a sum when I took the 3 yr complete care support for my inspiron 6400. Read the rest of this entry »
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