Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (11 Viewers)

[Martin]

Rami, those stories are heartwarming

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Rami]

You mean reassuring ??

 

[Martin]

I mean the kind that make you smile on a freezing, dark night

 

[Chxta]

One of my lecturers pulled a fast one on the class last week. The test we wrote was entirely on Linux. Only one person passed...

 

[Martin]

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

 

[Martin]

I thought you were a working man, chxta?

 

[Chxta]

I thought you were a working man, chxta?

Apparently you haven't been following my path. I resigned almost a year ago now and I am pursuing a Master's degree...

 

[Martin]

Apparently you haven't been following my path. I resigned almost a year ago now and I am pursuing a Master's degree...

In England some place? What kind of program is it?

 

[Chxta]

In England some place? What kind of program is it?

MSc. Computer Networks.

 

[Chxta]

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/05/12/microsoft_bi_three/

 

[Martin]

AMD will deliver open graphics drivers

AMD will soon deliver open graphics drivers, said Henri Richard just a few minutes ago, and the audience at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit broke into applause and cheers. Richard, AMD’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, promised: “I’m here to commit to you that it’s going to get done.” He also promised that AMD is “going to be very proactive in changing way we interface with the Linux community.”

The open sourcing of graphics drivers will indeed be good news, but it’s not a big surprise. After AMD acquired graphics driver maker ATI last year, an announcement that AMD would be opening up graphics drivers has been anticipated. The other shoe has dropped, and the folks at the Summit in San Diego are very happy. Now, the new question is “when?” Richard didn’t say.

http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/

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jesus frigging finally.

 

[gray]

Finally, no more of that fglrx bs and extensive hacking of xorg.conf

 

[V]

I have nVidia but that is definetly good news.


BTW, few days ago I started messing around with Foobar2K and I think it's safe to say it beats THE SHIT out of amaroK and everything else! (don't kill me Jack)

It's definetly the linux of audio players and it's ironic there isn't a linux version for it... It's fast as hell, even with a huge media library. It takes a while to configure it, there's a pretty big learning curve, again just like with linux. There isn't a thing you can't configure in it, it's so damn customazible it's breathtaking.

Now just to get it working in Wine properly.

 

[Martin]

But if it doesn't run on linux, it's useless

EDIT: the ui sure looks terrible: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Image:Foobar2000v0.9.png

EDIT2: it looks really crap

 

[V]

It's terrible isn't it?

But that's just the default UI, like I said you can customize everything. If you know code you can make it look just about anyway you want, literally. I don't know jack about code but lots of info can be found on hydrogenaudio.org forums, steal a little code here, steal a little code there and this is what I came up with:

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r207/vlatko27/untitled-2.png


But if you're really into code you can do this:

But it's far more than just looks, it has tons of usefull tools & plugins; tagging, lyrics, album art, etc. Fantastic player.

 

[JCK]

What's that, V? A cheap attempt to immitate Songbird?

 

[V]

You mean Foobar in general or my customization? If the first it's the other way around, Foobar is around for a number of years, if it's the latter up yours, took a lot of effort to get it to look like that.

 

[JCK]

That's what I love about AmaroK, I leave it with it's default look and change the foreground and background colour to fit my taste.

 

[V]

Amarok is definetly a great player, best one there is for linux, but it's sloooow, especially when it comes to the media library.