i loathe RPMs

appget is infinately better

So what program do you guys use for ripping music (mp3, flac etc.) in linux?

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Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
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Ok, apparently k3b allows me to rip in every format other than mp3

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"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

...and another screenshot...

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"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Ok, I don't know how, but I somehow managed to crash Fedora while switching between stuff on my XMMS playlist .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z Ok, I don't know how, but I somehow managed to crash Fedora while switching between stuff on my XMMS playlist .

Oh wow, congrats man!

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z Ok, I don't know how, but I somehow managed to crash Fedora while switching between stuff on my XMMS playlist .

Judging by your screenshot, I'd say you have a TMCOYD virus.

Too Much Crap On Your Desktop.

LOL

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Originally posted by NeoPhono Judging by your screenshot, I'd say you have a TMCOYD virus. Too Much Crap On Your Desktop. LOL

Yeah, that's probably it.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

I was talking to the TA for my Computer Architecture class in the lab. He's a CS Grad Student. And I found out that windows actually isn't poorly written code. The problem is bad design, and it's very costly to abondon the current one and start fresh. Basically, everything is packed in the Windows kernel, the gui, everything. And the reason why it crashes so much is not because of bad code, but really bugy display drivers for new video cards which takes ages to debug, and by the time they are debugged, they're obsolete (or just really old). So if a window crashes, the entire freakin OS does too. As opposed to linux, where KDE/Gnome (whatever gui you use) is not in the kernel and if it crashes, all you have to do is restrart the gui (kill process and restart). Plus, the file managment system in Linux makes it far more stable too, and the fact that the kernel is "minimal" compared to Windows. Anyways, that doesn't change the fact that I hate Microsoft.

Edit=Typos

Edit2: So bad design means that windows still sucks!

Edit3: So what I'm basically saying is (since I noticed I didn't clearly describe it earlie and merely gave an example) that the problem with Windows is everything being packed into the kernel and one thing crashing causes the whole damn OS to crash.

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"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Last edited by shaolin_Z on Apr-21-2006 at 21:16

So I feel somewhat limited by Fedora due to the lack of frequency of package updates (like glib and GTK etc). What else what you guys recommend? I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu.

Edit: The only thing I want to avoid is the pain of installing Linux since I've only installed Mandrake and Fedora before, and they have conveniet installation wizards that pretty much do everything for you. But it seems inevitable if I want to switch to something better.

Edit2: So is there any drawback in installing KUbuntu as opposed to Ubuntu?

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Last edited by shaolin_Z on Apr-22-2006 at 01:12

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z So I feel somewhat limited by Fedora due to the lack of frequency of package updates (like glib and GTK etc). What else what you guys recommend? I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu. Edit: The only thing I want to avoid is the pain of installing Linux since I've only installed Mandrake and Fedora before, and they have conveniet installation wizards that pretty much do everything for you. But it seems inevitable if I want to switch to something better. Edit2: So is there any drawback in installing KUbuntu as opposed to Ubuntu?

I have only installed Ubuntu once, but it was a really simple installation, probably as simple as for fedora or mandrake. What I have heard about Ubuntu it's a really good dist, but I haven't tried it much myself. And I really don't know the difference between kubuntu and obuntu, if you find out, it would be nice if you told us though

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z So I feel somewhat limited by Fedora due to the lack of frequency of package updates (like glib and GTK etc). What else what you guys recommend? I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu. Edit: The only thing I want to avoid is the pain of installing Linux since I've only installed Mandrake and Fedora before, and they have conveniet installation wizards that pretty much do everything for you. But it seems inevitable if I want to switch to something better. Edit2: So is there any drawback in installing KUbuntu as opposed to Ubuntu?

Hmmm...I'm acutally a bit suprised to hear that. Do you have nightly Yum updates started? Right now Yum has the most current version of the GTK2 package for FC5. FC is one of the most popular distros, along with Ubuntu and Debian, I'm not sure if the other two would be any more up do date. I guess I'm just wondering where you've had problems with out of date packages with Fedora Core.