[linux-help] Re: Right Choice of Linux OS

[Cheez-Czar <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

You didn't ask for email but, I'd stay away from Kmail 1.4 it seems to try
to encode plaintext as quoted-printable, so you get a lot of =20 in the
message :)

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:

> 
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 02:57 pm, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Cavgalar, Alexandros (Alex) wrote:
> > > Can anyone give me the difference of the following Linux versions?
> 
> well, thomas seemed to cover this pretty well, so i'll skip it, except i =
> must=20
> say how slack is the best linux distro ever ; ^ )
> 
> > > In addition to above questions, can anybody suggest me CD Writing,
> > > MP3/Wave type conversion softwares go with these Operating Systems?
> 
> MP3 Players:
> mpg123 - commandline player; probably not what you're looking for
> 
> xmms - used to be X11AMP; winamp look/act-alike; supports winamp2 skins
> 
> noatun - KDE's media player; supports winamp2 and kjofol skins
> 
> gqmpeg - GUI to mpg123; has it's own skin format
> 
> freeamp - don't know alot about it, but there's both a linux & win32 vers=
> ion
> 
> Mp3 Encoders:
> lame - IMHO one of the best; supports VBR, CBR, and ABR (a =3D average); =
> lots of=20
> GUI interfaces available, including Konqueror's Audio CD I/O kpart (drag =
> and=20
> drop rip/encoding of mp3/ogg files! :^ )
> 
> GRip - GUI interface to cparanoia/cdda2wav and lame... very nice; include=
> s=20
> CDDB support
> 
> =2E..i can't think of any others offhand... there used to be one called 8=
> hz or=20
> something, but it was discontinued last i heard...  lame seems to be the =
> most=20
> popular... good balance b/n quality & speed of encoding
> 
> 
> Rippers:
> konquer's Audio CD I/O - very simple to use; drag and drop the files and =
> it=20
> does it for you; can also encode to mp3/ogg on-the-fly; probably just a G=
> UI=20
> for cdda2wav or cdparanoia, but i'm not sure
> 
> cparanoia - probably the most popular; has lots of error checking/correct=
> ing=20
> stuff; claims to be able to rip audio from cd's in just about any state (=
> i=20
> once read about them ripping a cd after taking sandpaper to it!)
> 
> cdda2wav - faster than cdparanoia (with cdp's error correcting on); seems=
>  to=20
> be a stripped-down version of cdparanoia, but i'm not sure
> 
> 
> CD Writing:
> mkisofs - commandline tool to create ISO image; i like this better than t=
> he=20
> GUI interfaces, because i can burn cd's remotely
> 
> cdrecord - burns ISO's to CD
> 
> koncd, kreatecd, xcdroast, etc are just GUI interfaces to the above 2 pro=
> grams
> 
> 
> Hope this helps...  if you need more examples, just check out freshmeat.n=
> et or=20
> sourceforge.net
> 
> gLaNDix
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