Re: [Hampshire] Multimedia System

On Saturday 04 September 2010 09:57:28 Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm rather out of touch with anything non-server, I'm afraid. I want to
> set up a laptop for the children which they'll use mostly for watching
> DVDs, listening to music, and browsing the web. I've always just used
> mplayer and debian, but i suspect there are friendly shiny new alternatives
> and maybe even dedicate distros.
>
> I don't want to spend a lot of time hacking about with it, so something
> that bundles needed codecs, and java and flash and so forth would be
> excellent.
>
> What do you chaps recommend?

My granddaughter has OpenSuSE 11.1, installed by me. This is exactly what she
uses it for. The only thing I remember having to fiddle with was her school's
****** idiosyncratic wireless connection. Even wireless Just Worked
everywhere but school. All the online stuff she uses (You Tube Facebook
etc), and DVDs she plays seem not to cause any problems at all. This
includes playing Japanese television programs sent to her via email.

It was her father that set up the music on it. But so far as I know he just
installed Songbird and a large database of music. She uses it to sync with
her iPod and upload/download music.

Lisi