I was talking today with Dr. Vojsak who got me into Linux. We had a long discussion today about it.

He uses Fedora (core 3). But I can tell he is impressed with Knoppix. He was quite surprised when I told him the Knoppix found my Mad Dog USB dual layer external USB 2.0 DVD drive. I told him I was also surprised myself.

He suggested I do an experiment playing a DVD when we got to talking about if Linux can play them. YES!

His experiment:

Play a DVD in Linux while doing something else to see what would happen. Play the same DVD in Windows XP and start doing something else.

I know now that he already knew what was going to happen. I also knew already that while playing a DVD in XP I can't do ANYTHING else or the DVD starts to skip. In fact, I sometimes get hiccups even if I'm not doing anything.

So, now as I write this, I have a DVD playing in the background. I'm on line. And I'm doing an "Apt-Get Update" downloading all the latest updates while on line.

AND JUST HOW IS THE DVD PLAYING?

Perfectly. Not a hiccup. Now THAT! is impressive!!!!!

Gotta get back to the DVD

Later,

sakiZ