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Bart Maguire

2005-01-05, 14:04

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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I am not a programmer, but I can see that there might be some challenging
design/programming issues!</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">But saying that it is difficult is not a reason give up, or give your users second best...</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I am currently using KDE on SuSE but I have also tried running Slimserver on Windows
XP (because I wanted to try to integrate MusicMagic).  I might switch to RedHat soon
because SuSE doesn't install RPMs properly.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>Which shell, though?  Would you be happy if they integrated it with the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">>KDE shell on Linux?</span></font></div>
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kdf

2005-01-05, 14:11

Quoting Bart Maguire <bartmaguire (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk>:

> I am
> currently using KDE on SuSE but I have also tried running Slimserver on
> Windows
> XP (because I wanted to try to integrate MusicMagic). I might switch to
> RedHat soon
> because SuSE doesn't install RPMs properly.</span></font></div>
>
You can use MusicMagic under Linux as well. You just need Java and X. Most times
I run it via ssh with X forwarding and cygwin. My linux box is a server, so
I'm never sitting at the console.

In my experience, the response of the player UI is much snappier when the server
is running under Linux, or even OSX. There is no reason for Perl to run slower
under Windows, but I think there is just always more going on in a windows
system.

-kdf