Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας

me wrote:

Hi,


for dvd ripping you could use dvdrip, this is in the debian multimedia 
repositories:


http://debian-multimedia.org/



for the games you can try wine or cedega, wine is in the repositories 
and cedega is commercial.


But beware, it's not always easy to get Windows games running on Linux.

Fortunately there are also some native Linux versions, like 
UnrealTournament, Quake4, Doom3, X2, etc.





About DVD ripping, I have always found the native KDE way easier and 
more transparent.
On konqueror you enter dvd:/   (I think) and there you have it ready for 
ripping (You must have installed the libdvdcss2 library from the debian 
multimedia repo).


As for the games, a question: Has anybody tried playing such a game 
(Unreal, etc) under a virtualization engine? Virtualbox for example?


G.



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Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,22.Jun.09, 09:24:59, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
 
 As for the games, a question: Has anybody tried playing such a game
 (Unreal, etc) under a virtualization engine? Virtualbox for example?

AFAICT virtualization doesn't do any 3d acceleration.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread thveillon.debian
Andrei Popescu wrote:
 On Mon,22.Jun.09, 09:24:59, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
  
 As for the games, a question: Has anybody tried playing such a game
 (Unreal, etc) under a virtualization engine? Virtualbox for example?
 
 AFAICT virtualization doesn't do any 3d acceleration.
 
 Regards,
 Andrei
Hi,
In fact it does (or will), Sun VirtualBox started to introduce it in the
2.* for Windows, and later on for some Linux, and it should be available
for all guest systems in version 3 according to the beta already available.
Of course I don't know what it will look like performance wise, and of
course the host system must have effective video hardware acceleration,
and a pretty good video card I guess.

Tom


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Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
thveillon.debian wrote:
 And handbrake is a neat tool too for dvd ripping. But whatever the
 software you will need libdvdcss2 for commercial dvd's.

Which shouldn't be an obstacle for someone who does similar stuff on an
proprietary OS.

Johannes


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Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread me
Hi,


for dvd ripping you could use dvdrip, this is in the debian multimedia
repositories:

http://debian-multimedia.org/



for the games you can try wine or cedega, wine is in the repositories and
cedega is commercial.

But beware, it's not always easy to get Windows games running on Linux.

Fortunately there are also some native Linux versions, like
UnrealTournament, Quake4, Doom3, X2, etc.


Check out the Wine compatibility database at:

http://www.winehq.org/


Greetings,
vitaminx



2009/6/21 Fred Zinsli fred.zin...@shooter.co.nz

 Hello all

 I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server
 platform.

 My partner has a VISTA machine and she is always having problems with it.
 No surprises there I guess.

 I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz
 solution but I thought I would ask some questions first.

 Apart from the basic web surfing and email stuff I asked her what else she
 really must be able to do.

 They are:
 1. Rip (copy) DVD movies. We copy every single movie we own and only play
 the copied movie. This includes copywright movies. I won't get into the
 discussion over copying our movies.

 2. Play her games. They are all windowz based games like call of duty and
 the like.

 Can I meet the above requirements in either etch or lenny and if so can
 someone please point me to where I can get the information to allow me to
 setup the new platform to meet those requirements for her.

 Many thanks in advance for any comments.

 Regards

 Fred



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Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Fred Zinsli a écrit :
 Hello all
 
 I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server
 platform.
 
 My partner has a VISTA machine and she is always having problems with it.
 No surprises there I guess.
 
 I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz
 solution but I thought I would ask some questions first.
 
 Apart from the basic web surfing and email stuff I asked her what else she
 really must be able to do.
 
 They are:
 1. Rip (copy) DVD movies. We copy every single movie we own and only play
 the copied movie. This includes copywright movies. I won't get into the
 discussion over copying our movies.
 
 2. Play her games. They are all windowz based games like call of duty and
 the like.
 
 Can I meet the above requirements in either etch or lenny and if so can
 someone please point me to where I can get the information to allow me to
 setup the new platform to meet those requirements for her.
 
 Many thanks in advance for any comments.
 
 Regards
 
 Fred
 
 
 
Hi, very good idea to switch, even better for Debian. There will be no
problem/limitation regarding multimedia stuff, I use heavily my Debian
workstation for multimedia processing: video editing, digital
photography, music ripping and the like and I have never really suffered
from using Debian (with debian-multimedia.org repository that is).

Regarding windows games, I am not an expert at all, but I have used the
playonlinux package (available in contrib) with is a Wine
facilitator (scripts to installed required dll's and such), it could help.

As said by another poster there's commercial solutions especially
dedicated to windows games on Linux, and of course quality games
available directly on Linux. I think www.phoronix.com could be a good
starting point for those matters.

Happy switching !

Tom


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Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 21 June 2009, Fred Zinsli wrote:
 Hello all

 I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server
 platform.

 My partner has a VISTA machine 
[snip]

 I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz
 solution but I thought I would ask some questions first.

 Apart from the basic web surfing and email stuff I asked her what else she
 really must be able to do.

 They are:
 1. Rip (copy) DVD movies. We copy every single movie we own and only play
 the copied movie. This includes copywright movies. I won't get into the
 discussion over copying our movies.

[snip]

After trying dvdrip for DVD ripping I'm now using k9copy.

Cheers, Eike



Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution

2009-06-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Eike Lantzsch a écrit :
 On Sunday 21 June 2009, Fred Zinsli wrote:
 Hello all

 I have been usind Debian for some years now, but exclusively as a server
 platform.

 My partner has a VISTA machine
 [snip]

 I am wanting to offer her a Debian solution in pace of her windowz
 solution but I thought I would ask some questions first.

 Apart from the basic web surfing and email stuff I asked her what else she
 really must be able to do.

 They are:
 1. Rip (copy) DVD movies. We copy every single movie we own and only play
 the copied movie. This includes copywright movies. I won't get into the
 discussion over copying our movies.

 [snip]
 
 
 After trying dvdrip for DVD ripping I'm now using k9copy.
 
 
 Cheers, Eike
 
 
And handbrake is a neat tool too for dvd ripping. But whatever the
software you will need libdvdcss2 for commercial dvd's.

Tom


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