[NTLUG:Discuss] Bye Bye Mickeysoft

[TJ Davis]

Here's the deal.  I just upgraded my machine at home to an Anthon XP 2000+
and it is performing WAY better than my celeron 1.7ghz was.   I am
dual-booting Windows and RedHat Linux 8.0 and Linux runs fine but Windows is
messing up on me.  It freezes up and reboots on its own free will and
various other things that should never happen in any operating system.  Well
I have finally decided that it is time to just wave adios and take the
Windows boot line out of grub.conf (I know a lot of you still swear by lilo
but I'm trying to stay with the times) and convert /dev/hda1 from to ext3,
recovering the wasted disk space.  However I have a dilemma.  There are two
things that I cannot do effeciently in Linux yet so I am turning to NTLUG
for some advice.

(1)  I love playing around with video capturing and I have been playing
around with XAWtv but it just is not doing the trick.  I am going to check
out Broadcast 2000 when I get   home this evening but I am not even sure if
it supports video capturing and it is not being developed any longer
according to what I have read.

(2)  This is pretty cheesy but I have not had much luck with cd burning in
Linux.  I know you have to install what seems to be a scsi compatibility
layer if you are using IDE drives, which I am but I have only been able to
burn audio tools.  The only catch is that I refuse to use the command line
to burn cds.  I love it for most things but it just is not convenient when
burning cd's ( I dig the drag-n-drop feature).

Anyways, I am asking for suggestions on these two things.  I'm even open for
another distro if someone knows of one that is geared towards multimedia.
Thanks in advance as I know y'all will be a big help!  :-)

T.J. Davis
Southwestern A/G University
Computer/Network Technician
tjdavis at sagu.edu
1 Timothy 4:12

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