Be undead

The Hushed Casket was founded in 2002 shortly after the launch of the XBOX console. Today the Hushed Casket is a thriving community of gamers, playing together and publishing news and stories that have appeared in major media properties like Newsweek, G4TV, USA Today, and Penny Arcade. Some game developers have even referenced our guides and news to support their gamers. We don't play Halo. We LAN Halo.

User login

the Hushed Casket

Unseal the hushed casket of my soul...
Oculus's picture

Mintz wrote:Plug-and-play

Submitted by Oculus on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 4:20pm.

Mintz wrote:
Plug-and-play compatibility - Can I plug in a USB thumb drive or MP3 player and have it work?

Yes, I haven't run into a problem doing things like this yet.

Mintz wrote:
Wireless LAN security/functionality - Can I have the equivalent of WPA security? Will wireless devices in my house be able to connect to it for streaming music, etc.?

Yes. You used to go search and find a compatibility list of wireless cards that work, however I'm betting a lot of these drivers are more readily available, and some included. Short answer is do a quick search of your wireless card on google like this: "CardModelNumberHere site:ubuntu.com". In fact a quick search gives me this page.

Mintz wrote:
Software compatibility - Can it run Photoshop, iTunes, PC Games, most freeware apps (like IrfanView, WinRAR, etc.)?

-Photoshop: replace with Gimp
-iTunes: replace with Rythymbox or XMMS or a 100 different others. Stay away from DRM music at all costs... JayWHY will give you his opinion of this if he sees this thread.
-PC Games: Depends... Quake,UT3,HL, yes. GoW,HaloPC,Shadowrun, no, MS has exclusive licenses with some of these games.
-IrfanView: I have no idea(not even sure what it is), but I'm 99.99% sure it has a counterpart.
-WinRAR... (Win)RAR ?? Linux has very solid compression/decompression utilities that have been free and better than anything else for years.

Mintz wrote:
Media - Does it have a strong alternative to Windows Media Player other than WinAMP?

-Rythymbox comes with Redhat (probably Ubuntu as well), XMMS looks just like winamp and works the same. Again, stay away from DRM music at all costs (ie mp3s are good)

Mintz wrote:
Drivers - Would it give me any grief with my videocard, etc.?

-99% chance - NO. 1% chance you will have to use generic drivers included in the OS, and that still works. A lot of Video card manufacturers now release Linux Drivers. How do you install these... very easily.. however there's a couple tricks that make it easier. I won't go into command line stuff in this thread, but I'll start another one soon showing how easy it is to use the command line in Linux.

----------------------------
"Oculus is just this guy, you know?"

Reply

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd><s><img><i><b>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Youtube and google video links are automatically converted into embedded videos.
  • Filtered words will be replaced with the filtered version of the word.
  • You may quote other posts using [quote] tags.
  • You can use BBCode tags in the text, URLs will automatically be converted to links.

More information about formatting options

Captcha
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

Shout Box

Midnight: Just rented Rambo in HD from Video marketplace. Good flick.
[07/04-05:59pm]
Mintz: It's free: http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/07/03/monday-is-bungie-day.aspx
[07/03-02:56pm]
Mintz: They're never going to even charge for that map?
[07/03-01:56pm]
Midnight: Oh dear...
[07/03-11:49am]
EnragedGnome: Cold Storage aka Chill Out free on July 7th
[07/03-11:20am]
CynEater: You know what's already an awesome game? Strip poker with Lynne Webber
[07/02-07:56pm]
Slayer: September 12? I think.
[07/02-02:52pm]
Celery: Whats the release date on it?
[07/02-09:28am]
Slayer: The Force Unleashed is looking like it is going to be an awesome game!
[07/01-09:26pm]
Midnight: Interesting. I just learned the definition of an acquisition a few minutes ago.
[07/01-05:05pm]
Login or register to post shouts

twitter logo

Get notified of game nights and important THX announcements via the hushedcasket Twitter account. You can get the messages on your cell phone, through email, Facebook, and many other ways. Here's how it goes down.

Recent comments