Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution
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. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution
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 -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- www ... http://www.callistix.net/ mail ... vitam...@callistix.net irc ... #chezpaeule @ euirc mud ... vitaminx @ aardmud
Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian workstation (desktop) solution
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
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
