On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Luke Opperman wrote:
> Soumya-
>
> As a prelude to my message, I would like to say that in
> order to demonstrate the power of linux, often there are
> elements that are not directly linux-related which will
> really make the impact.
>
> > I have a 486DX4/16MB PC. I found Linux vastly superior
> to WIN9x for my use.
Be careful (please, this is NOT the start of a flame war): on my 386DX40,
8mb RAM, X Window, linux was much more efficient than win95. On a friends
Pentium 60, linux is terrible while win95 is usable -> low end hardware
yes, but say that in some hardware circumstances, linux is not the best
thing.
>
>
> I would highly suggest finding another computer, perhaps
> in addition to the 486. Then you'll really be able to show
> off the performance of multimedia on linux, and your older
> machine can show that it is also usable on the low end.
A thing which is always very interesting to show is an X Terminal,
beleieve me. If you can have say 10 486 and 1 Pentium/AMD with 300Mhz and
64mb ram and let turn gimp or something like this on your pentium, believe
me, that is really impressive.
>
> > On my system loading KDE brings down the performance.
> Now I have switched to
> > FVWM which is slightly lacking in aesthetics compared to
> Win9x.
>
> I would strongly recommend BlackBox for a low-load wm that
> still looks good. http://blackbox.wiw.org/
Or windowmaker ;-)
>
> > My aim is to convert some of the Windows users to Linux.
> I do not have much
> > idea on multimedia support on Linux. Please help me:
> > 1. Items that should be demonstrated
> > 2. Good software to use for multimedia demo.
>
> GQmpeg is a really cool looking mp3 player (gnome frontend
> to mpg123). Or xmms for a good winamp clone.
X11Amp is nice too, show also how to record audio-cd's with cdparano, and
encode it in mp3 with bladeenc. Be careful with the law, though
>
> GIMP is an excellent example of a high-quality open source
> product.
>
> Remember, if you are doing this on your 486, any
> multimedia displays are going to be pretty limited.
Actually, we want to make a multimedia demo too. There is really on hot
thing about linux: it's supports quite a lot of AWE32 sound cards in the
same computer. I am not really aware of it since I am working on routing,
but win95/98 is not able to do this (I might be wrong, please correc me)
Gerd
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