On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:28 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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 :) > -- > > ======================================================================= > Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. > Se non e vero, e ben trovato. > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 >
