[plug] WANEWS Challenge (was re: Lexmark Printers)

[Simon Scott]

	I commonly burn cd's while surfing etc. I even stress tested it once
and had 10 instances of XMMS all playing different mp3s at once (and it
still sounded better than Britney) while burning a CD.... no coaster. Before
I upgraded, I commonly burnt 2 cds at a time, one from harddisk onto my HP
IDE burner and 1 disk to disk (on the same scsi bus). No coasters. The only
coasters Id get were from damn annoying PSX copy protection ;-)

	Its bloody hard to get it to drop below 100% buffer fill on my
machine. Admittedly its an Athlon 1GIG with 384M ram and a half decent
Adaptec SCSI card, but I wouldnt say that the configuration is beyond what a
lot of windows users would have.

	I managed to crash linux the other night, by accidentally running 2
instances of Unreal Tournament. Ive done this before and they both ran, and
I just killed one off.
	But the other night I had a full lockup. Didnt have my dumb term to
hand so I just hit the button of death. Didnt try too hard to save it tho.

	Then again, I am running Mandrake 8 beta 1 so everything is so
bleeding edge that I would expect more lockups/crashes than 1 in the month
or more Ive been using it.







	From:	Darrell Horrocks <darrellh at kpbg.wa.gov.au> on 09-04-2001
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	Subject:	[plug] WANEWS Challenge (was re: Lexmark Printers)

	Hi All

	I think that this is quite a good idea, one that in particular
should go on the
	PLUG website, beginning a newbies guide to the weaning off windows.

	On this note, I think that we should be aiming at the two factors,
one of
	compatibility with the windows app, and the second on ease of use
and install.

	Simon's list looks pretty reasonable, but let's keep the apps GUI.
Anything CLI
	based and you scare the typical windows user.

	I'll try and compile a "best of" list, and HTMLise it.

	Keep those ideas coming!

	The other question is, what can Linux do (pretty, GUI and newbie
friendly) that
	windows can't.  My suggestion is CD-burning as that is on his list.
Who was it
	that said that they can burn a CD while still using Linux?  I'd like
to see
	Windows do THAT! ;-)

	And as far as email clients etc., who has used Opera under Linux?  I
haven't had
	a chance to install it yet.  This would probably get around the
	IE/Netscape/Email issues in the challenge list.

	Regards

	Darrell

	Simon Scott wrote:
	<SNIP>

	>
	>
	>         a) Word - Abiword, KWord, Staroffice
	>         b) He uses Eudora? Sad indeed. One of the 48 milltion
email clients,
	> text or window based.
	>         c) Netscape... or one of the 48 million nntp clients
available ,
	> text or window based.
	>         d) gnapster.... or one of the 48 million napster clones,
text or
	> window based. I use gnapster
	>         e) I use XCDRoast... there are lots of others... Unless
you are
	> copying playstation games there is no loss of functionality.
	>         f) Geez, this guy's trying hard! What's the name of that
	> professional (free) video editing suite?
	>         g) errr, 'Quicktime' is a program under windows? ugh, this
makes me
	> more ill than his articles. Does xanim or similar handle
quicktime? Does
	> anyone care?
	>         h) Dunno much about games, however I have Quake III Arena
and Unreal
	> Tournament running on my box at home. Im sure the others have been
LOKI-fied
	> at some point. Caveat - 3D is very young under linux, mostly due
to hardware
	> manufacturers sitting on their hands. However, once set up, it is
rock solid
	> opengl with performance (on most recent cards) close to windows.
This
	> should probably be seen as Linux's biggest weak point.
	>
	>

	<SNIP>
	Here's the challenge list.

	>
	>
	>         - Word
	>         - Eudora
	>         - Microsoft Explorer (inc. news reader)
	>         - Napster
	>         - MusicMatch (I use it to play MP3s, with trippy
visualisations, and
	> compile
	>         them to burn a CD)
	>         - CD copier
	>         - Ulead Media Studio Pro - video capture, professional
edit with
	> plenty of
	>         transitions, can handle DV, MPEG-1 and -2, MJPEG, AVI etc.
	>         - Quicktime
	>
	>         And games (I'll leave it generic to make things slightly
fairer):
	>         3D pool
	>         Racing game
	>         first-person shoot-em-up
	>         God game






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