Re: [LUG] Farseer enterprises - continued

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Matt Lee wrote:
| Personally, I don't find GNU/Linux all that easy to use.

You don't use it as a desktop.

| GNOME 2.8 is getting better, but it's not as easy as it could be..
look at
| Mac OS X - that's an example of easy to use, because you never
have to worry
| about terminals or kernels or any of that. I've never patched a
kernel, and
| I don't think I really should want to do that.

What makes you think you need to do it under GNU/Linux.

| * A decent email client, doesn't need too many features. I've not
seen this.
| Apple OS X Mail is this.

Most people are pushing Evolution, version 2 is okay.

| * A media player that just works. Works in the browser as a plugin
too -
| plays media from Windows Media, Real, QuickTime, plus the free formats
| (Theora, etc). Think QuickTime.

Totem

| * A music jukebox that rips, organises and plays a variety of
common music
| formats. Think iTunes.

Rhythmbox

| * Plug and play for things like USB keys, Firewire drives, iPods,
Flash
| memory cards

yeap Gnome does that.

| * Fast User Switching - XP and OS X have this. It's cool.

Gnome does that.

| * Photo organisation - I should be able to plug in my camera, have
my photos
| sucked onto my computer and filed into nicely organised albums.

Alas my digital camera predates the USB storage metaphor.... but
this doesn't sound challenging so I'm sure it is out there.
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