[SATLUG] Re: See, M$ Sucks! A message to the community

[Travis M.]

OpenOffice.Org did play that whole slideshow, except for the background
music. It almost entirely worked. Other stuff works very well. I am
really happy with it.

Such is my experience with open source software. Open Source Software is
great! Anyone can contribute to open source, anyone can change how open
source software works or make new additions to the software.

All the videos I want to play worked, except for some video that got
recorded by a cruddy camera I have. Another video recorded by that same
camera played perfectly fine, though, so I can't say it's serious.


Audacious/Amarok/Quod Libet are good music players. I really like
Audacious, it's great. MP3's play just fine with Audacious and Amarok
and for the most part, Quod Libet (Internet Radio is not a good
experience with Quod Libet). I like how with GNOME, I can use a image
with an alpha channel (a.k.a transparency) and pick a color with it's
desktop background color selector, and the desktop background will
change colors. Any Visual Style (as MS calls it) that you want. Any
anything that you want. It's all there to customize. That's the power of
Linux. It's mostly very stable too. My desktop has been running for 5-6
days and I plan on keeping it on for much longer, as it's my webserver.
A 800MHz P3 goes a long way with Linux, 512MB RAM, and a 7200rpm 120GB
Seagate ATA/100 hard drive.