Shiny shiny

[The Beatles]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124571,00.asp

Main highlights:
1. Free legal MP3 decoding (not GPL, but still)
2. Finally some OS X-class power in X (XGL)
3. Whatever F-Spot is it must be cool.

Mainly: These will all be in SuSE's upcoming version too!

[windhound]

"To get around that, Novell has developed its own MP3 player software, Banshee, for which it has licensed the patents. The software will be available under an open-source license, but not the GPL, he says. To demonstrate Banshee, he connected an iPod nano music player to the USB port of his laptop. Immediately, the software recognized the device, adding the music it contained to the playlist and allowing him to play one of the tracks."

spiffy
amarok kinda does that.. not really though.. direct support for the ipod is def. a step in the righ direction..

(FC 5 is due in march )

[The Beatles]

And FC5 will include some long-awaited GTK optimizations!

[Floppy_Drive]

Looks good.

[bjornredtail]

And to think the latest linux distro I've used is RH9*

*And that only at school**

**And that only because I could install it on a ROTC computer that perviously had a totally borked copy of windows 95 on it.***

***As a sortof test****

****That has for the most part failed. Oh well... At least I have half the battalion running on open office now.


Oh, and just when does the MP3 pattent run out?