I've been playing with some of the more "user-friendly" features of Linux over the past year, but haven't really "discovered" a lot because I'm strictly a command-line geek.
However, 1) in Fedora Core 2, inserting a blank CD into the writer will pop up a Nautilus dialog where you can drag-and-drop files, then write them to the CD. No need for mkisofs and cdrecord anymore. Honestly, I was taken aback (and a bit impressed) 2) just now, I stuck an SD card reader onto my USB port. In FC2 this would do "nothing" (or, at best, the SD card would show up as a disk on my desktop). But on CentOS 4.0/4.1 which I'm using now, it recognizes that the thing came from a digital camera and pops up GThumb! which is much nicer than Eye of Gnome or the old XV I was using because you can do simple image manipulations (e.g. rotates, since the Canon Ixus 700, while it has an orientation sensor, it doesn't rotate the actual images in-camera, only when displaying them on the rear LCD). I guess it should've been an omen that FC2 detected and properly drove my ancient (but high-end in its time) Aureal Vortex2 sound card, while Windows 2000 twiddled its thumbs.. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
