Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

So as some of you may know i've been playing heavily with debian over the past few days.

Well I Think I've *almost* got it to a stage when I'm begging to actually be able to use it for surfing and such instead of booting the dog that is vista.

In time I may consider switching for everything except a few windows specific apps (Games mostly ;) )

Have songbird playing my Music off my NTFS partition thanks to NTFS 3G.
Iceweasel/Icedove for internet and email. (basically firefox/thunderbird)
Pidgin for I'm
Gimp for image editing
Haven't installed open office yet since I hardly ever use office type apps lately.

Now all I need Is a decent app for Usenet (might run grabit under wine if i Can't find one) and some more video/audio playback software/codecs
Irc client (xirc?)

Actually thinking of nuking vista off my macbook altogether and using the space currently occupied by it for OSX/Debian since theres not really only stuff I actually need to run on there only had the odd game on my windows partition even my t-mobile usb modem works under Osx and linux. :)

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

Hi

I'm running Ubuntu which I think has similarities with Debian.
You mentioned a Usenet app.
Well, when I'm using newsgroups I use Pan newsreader, GPar2 (for recovery sets) and Rar archiver.
To install all these with Ubuntu it just needs the command:
sudo apt-get install pan gpar2 rar

Perhaps you can do a similar thing with Debian.

And VLC media player will run almost anything without the need for codecs.
:cool:

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

I use pan under KDE (it's a gnome app) & it is soooo slow.

Takes forever to exit, ties up the whole PC, writes oodles to disk for some reason....

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

For IRC, the best one I've found is XChat (although mIRC runs very well under Wine!)

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

Thats the one I was thinking of although I called it Xirc for some reason :dunce:

is there an easy way to Map Winkey + D and Winkey + L to do similar to windows (i.e hide all windows/ lock workstation)

Hmm see Pan can't do more than 4 connections per server.

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

For usenet I have the Ubuntu box running Ninan with a few post-download scripts attached for processing, bitstream unpacking and name lookups and storage. Works a treat :)

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Anyone know a good codec package for video.etc

I have the CCCP on windows and that plays most things, whats the linux equivlent?

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For newsgroups under *nix I use Klibido.

For codec stuff VLC manages everything I've chucked at it so far.

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

In Soviet Linux, video plays you!

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2007/10/14.jpg

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xine with win32codec pack will play most things...

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

If like me you like using terminal, you could run Irssi for Irc.
http://irssi.org/

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Installed Xine only thing that doesn't seem to work is windows media streams it seems to hang on buffering.

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

Did you install win32codecs?

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I think i used the mplayer ones but they look to be the same :confused:

Re: Ah now we're getting there (linux)
 

Yes, they will be.

You should be able to play windows media stuff, see xine FAQ...