On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:43:06PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: > >>>>> "AS" == Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes: > > >> > Finally I've found Freevo (http://freevo.sf.net) that fulfills > >> my > requirements quite well and has been serving well enough so > >> far. There > are still some problems with it: 1. It is not in > >> Debian and at the time > I checked there was no ITP for it; 2. it > >> depends on software not being > present in Debian; 3. and finally > >> it contains significant amount of > bugs. > > AS> how are you using freevo in this context? I understand the below, but what I meant was how are you using it for your kids? launching games? tv shows? how do the kids use it? > > 1. I installed it myself. When it broke after one of Debian upgrades, I > reinstalled it. > > 2. I installed the required software. Some pieces of it might simply be > included into Debian, other (namely mplayer) are required by the > installation program despite they are actually not used. > > 3. When Freevo is crashed by my kid, I restart it. > > If Freevo was in Debian, it would save me steps 1. + 2. and I could > possibly use the saved time to work on fixing 3. > > BTW, there are .deb packages for Freevo available. But: 1. I don't like > using non-Debian .debs; 2. the packages didn't work at the time I tried > to install them. I agree w/ you on the non-deb .debs. A
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