Ah now we're getting there (linux)

dragon · 17-10-2007, 20:53

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

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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.

ronald146m · 17-10-2007, 21:14

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.

Cobbydaler · 17-10-2007, 21:25

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....

Graham M · 17-10-2007, 21:40

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

dragon · 17-10-2007, 21:55

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Originally Posted by Zeph

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

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

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.

brundles · 17-10-2007, 22:13

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

dragon · 18-10-2007, 00:33

Anyone know a good codec package for video.etc

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

Gareth · 18-10-2007, 01:44

For newsgroups under *nix I use Klibido.

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

Alien · 18-10-2007, 08:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragon

Anyone know a good codec package for video.etc

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

In Soviet Linux, video plays you!

Cobbydaler · 18-10-2007, 08:43

xine with win32codec pack will play most things...

r00t · 18-10-2007, 16:36

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

dragon · 18-10-2007, 18:14

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

Cobbydaler · 18-10-2007, 22:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragon

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

Did you install win32codecs?

dragon · 18-10-2007, 22:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Did you install win32codecs?

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

Cobbydaler · 18-10-2007, 22:15

Yes, they will be.

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