Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Feb 2002 17:32 UTC
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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Hi,
<em>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.</em>
Not to start a flamewar or say Windows is perfect, by why do so many people from the Linux world associate Windows with Windows Media Player or with Internet Explorer or anything else that's built into the OS (and then usually say how bad it is compared to something in Linux)? For web surfing under Windows there also is e.g. Opera or Mozilla, for multimedia playback there is http://bsplayer.cjb.net">BSPlayer Sasami2K" rel="nofollow">http://www.sasami2k.com">Sasami2K or the upcoming WinAMP3, to mention the most popular.
In Windows there are also alternatives. If one doesn't like IE or WMP he can use something else. Don't say Windows is bad just because IE or WMP or the like are bad.
You can certainly think of better reasons. ;-)
Roman