<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Trevor TeC Christian</b> <<a href="mailto:trevor@bouyon.dalive.com">trevor@bouyon.dalive.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Fri, December 23, 2005 3:12 pm, Arthur Pemberton said:<br>> On 12/23/05, Nathan Low <<a href="mailto:nlow04@yahoo.com">nlow04@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Can Cyberlink PowerDVD 4.0 that's a windows program be compatible with
<br>>> Fedora core 4 if I buy the Crossover Office Standard 5.0?<br>>><br>>> Is Xandros Linux operating system more suitable to people who work with<br>>> multimedia all the time?<br>>><br>>> Please respond. Thanks.
<br>>><br>>> Nathan<br>>><br>><br>> Nathan,<br>><br>> Basically, unless you have something exotic to do in Fedora/Linux , there<br>> will not be a need to purchase any software. I mean, if you have some
<br>> money<br>> to spare, you can always fund a linux project. Otherwise I'm guessing you<br>> will find the software frely available will meet your needs. There are of<br>> course exceptions.<br>><br>> While you may find some people here familiar with what Crossover Office
<br>> supports, your best bet is just asking for a advice on a similar Linux<br>> applicaiton, or sending these type of questions to the Crossover Office<br>> suite.<br>><br>> I know there is suppose to be a distro more multimedia oriented than
<br>> Fedora<br>> (I can't remember which) but in all fairness you can get Fedora to be as<br>> multimedia oriented as your heart desires.<br>><br>> In terms of playback, a combination of mplayer and a suitable (easily
<br>> obtainable) plugin will/should meet any of your needs.<br>><br><br>I somewhat disagree that you can make i as multimedia oriented as required.<br><br>I haven't tried othere distro's re multimedia - but I know from trying
<br>that midi support is poor. I have been forced to remain a partial user<br>because of the slow coming progress in this field - I have to run my<br>studio projects in windows.</blockquote><div><br>
I am going to have to aggree with that, i forgot that midi support
sucks in Fedora. I have no idea why. In all fairness I haven't used
midi for any god reason in ages.<br>
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