I’ve recently made the switch to Linux as many of you have read my previous blogs on the matter.
One of the things that I missed dearly, but was not a critical priority, was getting streaming MP3 (shoutcast) on my headphones. Too many higher priority things on my plate, but I finally got XMMS and the MP3 codecs. What a pain those pesky patents have caused for end users like me.
977 the Kickin Country Channel never sounded so good!
Actually, what I did to get multi-media fixed on my l33t dual core laptop was going over to the MPlayer guys (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) at the Linuxtag conference a couple of months ago. Not only did they manage to have including MPEG playback, MP3 etc. running in a couple of minutes, they are also really nice guys. But, they write open source software, what do you expect?
Remember Nick, it’s now what you know, it’s WHO you know…
We’re finding that out more and more these days, eh? WHO I know is definitely helping more than what I know…Although, I’m not sure that’s a good thing to espouse pubilcally!
I’m feeling the siren call of OS X. Need some things like printer drivers, wireless firmware that doesn’t need patched, java that works with desktop manager, etc. I love “not windows” but too much I need to do quickly and OS X may be the ticket… thoughts?
Mac hé? I don’t know Nick, this guy seems to disagree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEa-2tUaidk
He seems very serious about it… Mmm it’s a tough call to make. Good luck with that.
Nick, here’s an interesting view of SLED10 on a Thinkpad and MacOSX to boot
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/08/lenovo_to_prelo.html
I wonder if you agree.
Hey Nick,
I have just made the switch to a new macbook pro and I have enjoyed every aspect of the switch. The only downside is that Oracle will not work on the new Intel based machines. But Parallels or the soon-to-be-released vmware fixes that minor probem.
Cheers,
Ben
Nick,
Come over to the light side! Life on a Mac is sweeter by far… and Parallels solves all your “must use Windows” woes. Who knows, I might even be able to score you a deal on a barely used 17″ MacBook Pro, as my techno lust draws me to the oh so temptingly smaller and sexier black MacBook.