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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Mar 2008 17:57 UTC, submitted by CIozzio

PCMag compared Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS X to one another. "Now that the major OSs all run on Intel chips, the playing field is pretty leveled out. We compared the heavy hitters in an eight-point test to find who wins the OS battle."

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RE: Linux distro with DVD et al out of the box?

by chemical_scum on Tue 11th Mar 2008 15:33 UTC in reply to "Linux distro with DVD et al out of the box?"

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I personally know of only one open-source DVD player for Linux which supports menus too, and that's Ogle. Ogle just isn't really too pretty, and it's buggy. :/

Xine supports DVD menus too:

http://xinehq.de/index.php/about

I had it running when I was using Ubuntu Feisty. As i remember it was a bit buggy, but I can't remember exactly how good or bad it was. It was functional however. On Gutsy I have installed Ogle but I haven't tried it yet, I don't watch a lot of Hollywood movie crap. However I will have to install Xine again and try a comparison with Ogle on some of my punk DVD's.

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