David Faure is a well known developer in the KDE & Linux community. His work can be found in KFM, Konqueror source code and he recently also picked up KOffice's KWord development. David is also one of the people who have commited in bug squashing under KDE, especially after he got hired by Mandrake Software. Read more for our interview with David regarding Konqueror, KDE object prelinking, Gnome and much more.
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> KDE has noatun and kaboodle. There is also aviplay, mplayer (my >favourite) and xine, not to mention countless others. Mplayer and xine can >play more formats than Windows Media player, and they handle file errors >much better. I have DivX, WMV and ASF files that Windows Media Player >chokes on, but which mplayer and xine play gracefully. Most importantly, >GNU/Linux media players don't spy on you.
Yeah! Well said. No spyware on Linux's Media Player definitely. MS Media player is irrelevant.
> KDE has noatun and kaboodle. There is also aviplay, mplayer (my >favourite) and xine, not to mention countless others. Mplayer and xine can >play more formats than Windows Media player, and they handle file errors >much better. I have DivX, WMV and ASF files that Windows Media Player >chokes on, but which mplayer and xine play gracefully. Most importantly, >GNU/Linux media players don't spy on you.
Yeah! Well said. No spyware on Linux's Media Player definitely. MS Media player is irrelevant.