In article , Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:34:21 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

So info on those points would be welcome. Failing that I may try
something like xfce Mint sometime. But its a bit of a faff as a
temporary measure if someone can tell me in advance that won't do the
job and point me at a better choice. (I'm asking at the BBC about this
as well.)

Speaking as a dyed-in-the-wool RedHat guy, I was pretty impressed with
vanilla Mint when I installed it last Xmas for my sister. The install
was easy and I like the Cinnamon desktop. Vanilla Mint runs at an
acceptable speed on her somewhat underpowered HP laptop.

OK. Noted. I tend to prefer xfce for the desktop. Not sure how that relates
to cinnamon/mate/whatever. No doubt I'll find out by making a mistake, i.e.
the usual way. :-)

Personal BBC comment: I really wish that the NRDC surround sound format
would be reinstated even if only as an Internet audio format.

Agreed. Yes I recall it. The new 22+ channel hyper vector systems seem to
be rather over-re-inventing it!



Never mind all that browser ********: I'd happily install a
freestanding Winamp equivalent application if did the same job as that
NRDC preamp and could feed the result to my headhones or my external
sound system via an external sound card. If it could be installed on a
RaspberryPi and look like another physical preamp, so much the better!


That raises the question of iplayer on the RPi. Will Chrome run on the RPi
distros? It would be hard for the BBC to ignore RPi given how many are in
use now.

Jim

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