well, it's so nice to see linux armed with so many multimedia players and browers and all with plugin and helper app capabilities all over the place. what's needed now however is a means to mix and match properly. it's nice that things are generally working better than ever on my 5 year old dell inspiron, with linux, especially slackware, my pentium iii 500 mhz laptop isn't getting older, it's getting better....

but one thing i would like and perhaps it'll be my pet project, but i need to find out how to determine which multimedia apps i want running with each browser, even nautilus and kde browsers... quite a feat i know, but how nice it would be to have a grip on all that....

massive learning curve ahead i think but think of everything i'll learn in the process...

and what kills me the most is that even if i take the time to compile the source code for whatever multimedia product i'm interested in, the damn thing only seems to work even better...

must be a "linux" thing i guess....

having the source code for everything immediately available (not to mention the latest players are handing wmv and real player formats) will be the death of windows....

long live linux

- perry

I'd add *nix philosophy (solve complex tasks by combining/chaining small & simple & perfect working programs) that's very different of another OS worlds I know (Windows, MacOS).