[PLUG] Finally ready to cut the cord but need some questions answered

Sean Whitney sean at fork.com
Sun Nov 3 03:41:30 UTC 2002


Ditto to what everyone else said, but

www.codeweavers.com will sell you a plugin that will allow you to run 
shockwave, flash 6, quicktime, winders media player all in 
mozilla/galeon/konqueror.  $24.95.  This is the best money I have spent on 
linux software in a long time.

Sean


On Saturday 02 November 2002 15:05, you wrote:
> Well I'm finally ready to completely the cord that is
> Wintel. I've been successfully running RH on an old
> notebook for my classwork but have continued to run
> Win98 on my desktop at home.
>
> Last night, my much less technically savvy significant
> other naively opened a file from an email. Short story
> I was completely hit hard by something. I had to
> rebuild (mostly unsuccessfully) this morning.  The
> irony was that it occurred on the day that the court
> announces that Microsoft can run rampant.
>
> So, I'm willing to try RH at home. However, I need
> equivalents in the linux/gnu world of the multimedia
> options that windows offered. Specifically I need the
> same/equivalent of the following:
>   winamp (for listening to streaming radio, ie
> radioparadise)
>   realplayer (for video; do they make one for
> linux/gnu?)
>
> Also, admitting that we still live in a wintel
> dominated world, what linux/gnu-based web browser
> handles the latest web tricks (flash, etc) the best?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim Hilsenteger
>
> "Life is too long for bad coffee"
>
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