On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:28 -0600, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:29:13AM -0500, tlc wrote:
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:46 +0100, malcolm wrote:
I work in a school and we are thinking about Linux I put some test machines out - Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu The view of the students was Fedora was the best ..great so far Then we did the KDE v Gnome thing - Gnome won ... even better Then I asked the question - so what do you think of Linux ? 'It sucks ! ' was the almost universal response ( students aged 11 to 18 ) Why I asked .. It never falls over, XP dies all the time ... true they said OO is just like Office to use and doesn't munge up documents .. also true they said It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does it suck
Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos and that was it - Ok I did point out that they weren't suppose to be watching them at all really but that doesn't cut much ice with teenagers. So the problem is this - I am never going to get this off the ground if I don't have the support of the kids. Windows Media is my Linux killer - Codeweavers are OK but only support WMP 6.4 - I've never got gxine to work properly and the Linux version of Real Player won't do the 'universal player' trick that the Windows one does.
Even the most angst ridden teenager admitted that 99% of Linux was better than the Windows equivalent but not one of them wanted to use it simply because of the lack of Windows Media plugins
Help .... please !
mplayer and mplayer-plugin ... plays just about everything I have come across ...
Have you tried mp2 files.
does this mean I have to go get one to try it :)
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