On 7/26/05, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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..
It's something I think most oldbies(*) should do-- go pop in a newer distro such as FC2 (and upwards) or Ubuntu and try it out. The Linux desktop has indeed improved by leaps and bounds, and will continue to improve. (I've been telling this to a friend of mine, a former PLUGger who's now a Mac OS X fan-- the Linux desktop may not be there yet, but it's a helluva improvement over the Linux desktops just two or three years ago.) * Or anyone who has been disillusioned by earlier Linux desktop experiences. -- JM Ibanez -- Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds? Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money] Croupier: Your winnings, sir. Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much. [aloud] Captain Renault: Everybody out at once! - from "Casablanca" ----- http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ _________________________________________________ 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
