Linux ideas and recommendations

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Ben Pfaff on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:39:41PM -0400:
> If you want something that will work, use stable.
> If you want something that's more up-to-date, use testing.
> If you want something bleeding edge but will still work most of
> the time, use unstable.
> I use unstable.

I think at home I have 2.2 with a bunch of additional packages out
of "unstable" that I brought home at one point, or something, I
don't really remember because it's been so long since I did anything
to that box...

> > Any recommendations on things I should go out of my way to make
> > sure I install or setup?  I know most of it (I'm not *that* far
> > out of the loop!), but I was wondering about cool Linux stuff that
> > I'm sure I overlooked because it didn't run under FreeBSD, or
> > because I didn't need to run it before. One example of that is
> > cdparanoia, which is great for ripping CD's in Linux, but doesn't
> > work for FreeBSD, so I haven't kept track of it much recently.
> 
> I'm using Grip as I write this, which calls cdparanoia to rip CDs
> to WAVs as I insert them, then calls oggenc to encode them in Ogg
> Vorbis format, then deletes the WAVs, then ejects the CD.  Works
> perfectly.  I have almost all of my Nine Inch Nails CDs as .ogg's
> now...

Hmm... I've used grip before also, but as I said, FreeBSD won't
run cdparanoia, so it was using some lesser library instead, and
I didn't do Ogg Vorbis encoding, just MP3.  Ogg Vorbis has been
tempting me for a long time now, so perhaps it's time to make all
my CD's into an .ogg collection! ;)

> > Another would be a DVD player, since I haven't tried getting that
> > to work in FreeBSD or Linux before (though DPK mentioned one that
> > I'll take a look at).
> 
> There are a few of these.  I've used the one from
> linuxvideo.org.  Just add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
> and do `apt-get install oms-omi':
> 	deb http://linuxvideo.org/oms/data/debian ./

Hmm... looks promising... =)


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