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ZDNet ^ | July 24, 2008 | Jason Perlow

[newfreep]

Will I be able to connect my “Pong” video game?

[AFreeBird]

Used to use xmms until I discovered Amarok. Works great. If you're running Linux, get it and try it out.

[Big Giant Head]

Personally, I think if any distro is going to pull it off, it will be Ubuntu.

You're probably right, but only because it's got a good marketing campaign, if you can call it that. Linux=Ubuntu=linux in many people's minds. I don't like Ubuntu very much, and every time I get the idea that I want to try it again, it ticks me off.

I'm a PCLinuxOS guy. I'm always smiling when I load it onto a machine, set up the wireless, and it's all humming. I LOVE not having to get up, dig through the pile of disks looking for the printer driver disk like I have to with Windows. I just add printer, and it finds the printer. People that are afraid to switch from Windows are really missing out. Linux is no longer "hard" or geeky. I don't EVER use the command line. Not ever. I have to do command line, and I'll drop that distro, Ubuntu included.

[bigdcaldavis]

I know of two: VLC (also lets you watch Shoutcast TV video streams) and Rhythmbox (lets you add/bookmark Shoutcast radio streams). Exaile should also work.

[B Knotts]

Yes, among people I know, Ubuntu is appearing on computers at a surprising pace.

I like Debian, myself.

Between Linux and Mac OS, Vista is driving a lot of migration, it seems.

[B Knotts]

Now . . . off for locally brewed beer.

Yes...my garage is local. :-)

[B Knotts]

I use Amarok, but if you want something like Winamp, you'll probably like xmms.

[B Knotts]

You're right...I didn't know it had gone away.

Audacious seems to be a reasonable replacement.

[bigdcaldavis]

For Xubuntu, I’d pick either Rhythmbox, Exaile, Listen, Amarok, or the Beep Media Player. XMMS is a straight-forward clone of Winamp, but development of that stopped a long time ago, so I wouldn’t recommend it.

However, you can install Winamp on Xubuntu provided you have a fairly-recent version of Wine (along with Wine Gecko). The latest version of Wine is 1.1.23. It supports a LOT of Windows-based programs.