On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 02:01:35PM -0600, David Cross wrote: > My guess is that he'll run into trouble spots with streaming media, and any > java applications in a browser. > > RealPlayer for Linux stinks. It crashes RH 7.2 EVERY time, even during the > install. Of course there is no Windows Media player, so I have no options but > .mp3 downloads. Nothing streaming. > I've had no problems with RealPlayer on RedHat 7.2, have you tried debugging it? As for Windows Media Player many linux media players now support the various Microsoft codecs, and xmms/mpg123/mpg321 all support mp3 streaming. > Configuring java with Konqeror is no joy and even when it is finished I find > that the blank gray boxes that should be applets or .jsps are a common > problem with Sun's java. Netscape 4.x does fine, but Netscape 6.2 can't run > it's own java installer and Konqeror dead ends with the aforementioned > problem. > I've yet to bother getting java working on Mozilla, I use netscape 4.x for this. [snip, wow, that's a long sig =)] Matthew S. Hallacy poptix at irc