dritzominous wrote:Personally I don't use the Mint software manager either. I just thought other people did.
Me too. Never use
Now, the Update Manager, that one is a jewel for me.
Occasionally I used, when I do not want to type
But now I am playing with LinuxBBQ-xfce 4.10 ( siduction towo's kernel 3.6.6, default with Debian nonfree-firmware) and I tried update manager ( installed by default) and it is nice.. Click click and read read...simple. save typing apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade in terminal ...getting lazy
There is nice BBQ scripts there..I am trying to learn from its cook book to make iso.
I like that "check for upgrade warnings", especially for SID users..
How about LightDM instead of MDM? (No gnome dependencies)
+++ for this one, always work and works on many distros.
For those who are interested to try linuxBBQ, this is the link
http://www.linuxbbq.org/
Regarding parole vs vlc.
When I used Salix-xfce4.10, its has default parole. It is snappy.
When I play media over network file ( I have another computer on networking running Debian-xfce as NAS storing many media files for network sharing), Parole seems to be more snappy than VLC in term of time to start playing.
But here is one issue: Parole does not play SOME of the mp4 file,, it does not start, I have not pursue the issue because I have VLC too, while VLC open file with a little longer waiting time, it plays EVERY media files I have.
Since I am on it, I decided to install parole on linuxBBQ and would just do a simple check later comparing parole/vlc playing various media files on data partition as well as pulling over from network.... will update later..
EDIT: got it installed, versions as below
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root@linuxbbqxfce:/home/wayne# apt-cache policy vlc parole
vlc:
Installed: 2.0.4-1
Candidate: 2.0.4-1
Version table:
*** 2.0.4-1 0
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
parole:
Installed: 0.3.0.3-1
Candidate: 0.3.0.3-1
Version table:
*** 0.3.0.3-1 0
1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages
500 http://packages.siduction.org/xfcenext/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.2.0.6-1+b1 0
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
root@linuxbbqxfce:/home/wayne#
quick testing:
vlc, play everything, both local data partition as well as over network shares.
parole, does not play many files over network, no reported error but not playing.
on local media files, errors, gstreamer not installed,
This is just quick test. not attempting to resolve with gstreamer....
so I would be happy to stay with vlc.