Jared’s Blog

June 25, 2006

Linux is awesome

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jared Sutton @ 11:08 pm

Yeah, I know, I’ve been using it for 7 years, and I still find it really, really cool.  Today I spent a lot of time actually converting myself to Linux (as opposed to just learning it and using it on the side, as I’ve been doing for the last 7 years).  I moved my Thunderbird stuff over to Ubuntu Dapper as well as Gaim.  I’ve also dropped Winamp (since there is no Winamp for Linux sadly) in favor of amarok.

On the issue of Media Players, I was originally looking for a player that had a winamp style layout, but also had a Media Library.  The only thing I found that came close was BMPx, however, it was much too unstable (it’s not really finished yet, so I don’t blame the authors :) ).  It does look promising, however, so I’ll keep checking in on it from time to time.  For now, amarok has all the features I want (supports ogg, mp3, and wma, not that I have any wma anymore :) ).

I’ve also finished moving my Firefox configuration over (bookmarks, et. al.).  Tomorrow, I plan on making sure that all the media formats that I’ll run into are taken care of (Quicktime, Realplayer, Flash, et. al.).  A lot of that will be taken care of  VLC Media Player which has a nice Firefox plugin. :)

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