[Gloucs] Andy's rant.

[John Kilgour]

openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2 happily run the BBC iPlayer and Channel 4 on demand. It 
does need the Packman repository enabled however.


On Sunday 22 November 2009, Maximillian Murphy wrote:
> På Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:48:49 +0000 skrive
>
> Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com>:
> > However, I now  have a resulting  problem.
> > My son Chris is very happy surfing on Lenny,  but wants to be able to do
> > lots of things that I am not geared up for !
> >
> > He  has a Kodak digital camera that is NOT Linux friendly -  (no
> > problems with my Canon).
> > He also wants to use YouTube and also to download stuff from various
> > Linux-unfriendly sites.
>
> I don't know about the camera but wherever gnash fails Adobe flash works
> fine for me.  For 32-bit the standard Adobe download page is the place to
> look.  I'm on x86-64.  64-bit flash player isn't on the standard Adobe
> download page but is available from here:
> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
>
> I suppose more details on the camera unfriendliness might crack the
> problem.  I don't get through a lot of cameras but I have yet to come
> across one that I can't mount as a filesystem.
>
> > He is talking about getting his own Windows Laptop (grrrrr).
>
> When my youngest sister went to university I got her a laptop with Linux
> installed.  She made similar mutterings as she thought I was merely a
> one-off Linux nut.  When she got there she mentioned this to one of her
> housemates who replied that if she installed windows he might not be
> answerable for his own actions.  He said he might be found prowling around
> the house at night with an axe looking for the offending machine.  She has
> now converted not only herself but a number of art history classmates as
> well after a session where Powerpoint failed for a number of them and the
> FOSS equivalent ran without trouble.  Extended battery life on Linux seems
> to be a big winner too!
>
> > The best I can hope for is dual-boot.
>
> Nah, send him to university!
>
> That said, joking aside lil' sis did get a decent chance to play with both
> platforms (and Apple, so technically all three platforms) and eventually
> the best platform won.
>
> Regards, Max
>
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