!!!
Is the music manager “Banshee” new or something? Why have I never heard of it before? And why is it that it appears to actually work?! Including with my ipod! It seems to work better than gtkpod, and I don’t need to run it with sudo to transfer files.
I’m… shocked.
And I’m knocking on wood like my life depends on it.
Ok, so what do I have left that’s holding me back from switching entirely exclusively to Linux now? Photoshop (the Gimp hates me), and I can’t make flash not be stupid in linux. Oh, and wireless on my ibook isn’t possible for someone of my intelligence.
Anything else…? I can’t think of anything. The take-over of Emily is almost complete.
If rebooting my ibook was faster, I’d dual boot EXCLUSIVELY so that I could use Open Office on linux rather than using it with X11 on my ibook. Not having a decent free word processor for OSX is a major major problem for me.
Anonymous | 08-Apr-06 at 5:34 pm | Permalink
Unfortunately, Flash on PPC is lame. If you had an x86 laptop…
Also, if your wireless is an Airport Extreme, yeah, it’s a no-go.
I don’t know why GIMP isn’t working for you, though.
Emily | 08-Apr-06 at 6:15 pm | Permalink
I guess I wasn’t very specific. Gimp works. It runs. It’s just so poorly designed that it’s very difficult to learn and use even to do basic things like create a poster. I’m simply unsatisfied with it as an amateur graphic designer.
Travis | 09-Apr-06 at 5:27 pm | Permalink
After reading through the change logs, it looks like you’re in for a pleasant surprise. From what I understand, Dapper Drake 6.06 has out of the box support for Airport Extreme cards. It also sounds like they’ve improved flash support. I don’t know about you, but flash just kills X for me in Breezy.
Also, photoshop can be persuaded into running within Wine. A guide which I have not tested myself is available here: http://www.alexandern.com/Photoshop_on_Linux_(how_to).html
Also, after trying Dapper Flight 5, I can tell you it boots much faster than Breezy. Though, I’m sticking with windows until Dapper goes final. I think that’ll be the release that makes me dump windows.
Now… to get dreamweaver working in teh linux…
Emily | 09-Apr-06 at 6:27 pm | Permalink
That’s… AWESOME news. wow cool. :)
I wouldn’t mind having photoshop working in linux, but I also want to have legal copies of all my stuff… that’s one reason I switched was to break my dependence on pirated stuff…
But yeah. a working airport card would be amazingly awesome.
Breezy was such an improvement over warty… I switched at warty and it was awesome to see the improvements in breezy. I’m HELLA excited about Dapper.
Michael | 10-Apr-06 at 5:03 pm | Permalink
A note on Travis’ mentioning of the Airport Extreme support… I have been using that driver (bcm43xx) on my laptop for some time and with patience it usually works, but it is hard to say if it will reliable by the time Dapper is released, or if Dapper will include the latest version on release. On the upside the driver’s developer actually is doing his work on a mac so perhaps ppc is a bit more reliable than x86. In any case I have been using the driver for a while now so if you need any tips on getting it to work let me know.
Oh, and software suspend (aka hibernate) is a big help for boot times. :-)