Day: 24 August 2005

If you’re considering a holiday this winter to escape to warmer climes, why not try Phaic Tan? …

Anyway. Update on Linux: I now have an MP3 Player, a DVD Player, a media player (for e.g. DivX), and a Machine that goes *Ping*.

Took some doing to get working, but it’s all there! Funny thing is, I haven’t really been noticing much that I’m on Linux at the moment. I do a lot of internet stuff (websites) and Firefox comes with Fedora Core, which looks very similar to the Windows version. Also Mozilla Thunderbird (which, incidentally, I was able to transfer all the mail to without any problems at all).

Good stuff!

Hmmm, well, one more thing I’ve found out about Linux: when you install a program with Windows, generally that’s all you need to download: one program. Not so with Linux. I’ve just been trying to install a DVD player (Ogle, an open source DVD player for unix based systems).

I’ve finally managed to get it working, but it took quite a lot of hit and miss to get there! There are a lot of additional packages it depends on.

There is a GUI to it as well, but I couldn’t get that to work… it’s getting late, I can’t be bothered, and I don’t know what’s wrong!

This could well be more work than I’d intended, but in a funny kind of way it’s actually quite satisfying – seeing it come together. I’ve managed to get an MP3 player working as well! Just need to get DivXs working now…