The recently released Banshee media player sparked interest after i read a linux.com review about it, so i thought i would check it out and compare it to my favorite player Amarok.
Since Amarok is well ahead of its competitor, lets focus on what they did right from the start:
Video Player: since you dont have only MP3's and you like to use your iPod for something other then those.
Bookmarks: when you just dont want to make a playlist
CD Media extraction: When you want to store that CD and find it later
As i am writing, I am installing the stable release of OpenSUSE 11, the latest distro of the same named project.
I was simply fascinated how the distro is well polished, recognised my madwifi-based wireless card, sound, and graphics card instantly, so i was able to continue my work as the distro itself installed.
KDE4 was the desktop of my choice. Trough it was not able to shine fully since OpenGL was not setup in the live version, I found the interface to be quite appealing.
Yast2 has gotten a really impressive makeover, cutting down processing time multiple times.
Many programs arent ported to KDE4 yet so any big changes from what i had setup on 10.3 werent expected.
All in all, Install is fast, the interface is simple, the programs are new.
After 15 years of development, Wine 1.0 has been released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. While perfect windows compatibility has not yet been achieved, full support for Photoshop CS2, Excel Viewer 2003, Word Viewer 2003 and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 have been among the goals prior to the release.
