In article , Adrian C
wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:
Hi,

I've just put up a new page

http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Linux/Sou...stenAgain.html

This discusses how I setup a (Ubuntu) Linux box to access the BBC
iPlayer, and provides some measurements on the results that look at
some aspects of the BBC aac/aac+ radio iPlayer.


FWIW I've just built a xubuntu box to run on an old Celeron 500MHz CPU
(spawn of Pentium II), 512MB - It's a Compaq SFF PC from the skip. The
onboard sound was pants, so found an old Aureal Vortex 2 soundcard that
had no hope of further software support in Windows and used that to feed
the workshop amplifier.

I should admit that I do prefer Xubuntu, but stayed with Ubuntu on the
Shuttle I'm using. Xfce is more like the managers of yore that I used
mumble years ago. Gnome is a bit too 'eye candy' for my taste.

Rather than switch to Xubuntu I am slowly displacing Ubuntu's gnome desktop
by ROX. :-) If you've not tried that, have a look. It is available via
synaptic as well as the other usual methods.

This should mean that eventually I have access to all the usual Ubuntu
apps, etc, but can have the ROX GUI/filer which is far more to my taste
than gnome's normal behaviour. Gnome is probably too much like windows for
me. :-) I prefer the simpler and more self-contained behaviour of ROX.
But this is probably because it is based on the way my preferred Risc OS
GUI functions. Helps me to feel at home with using a GUI on top of *nix.

Slainte,

Jim

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