I have had very good luck with 'vlc' and 'mplayer' playing dvd's in linux with my desktop and my laptop (Celeron 400). They both played very smooth, though I think mplayer was slightly better. Mike Hicks wrote: >Michael Vieths <foeclan at winternet.com> wrote: > >>Having a laptop that can do DVDs now, I started searching for updates on >>LinDVD, which was originally demoed over a year ago. Here's the support >>take on it (names removed to protect the innocent). What I find >>interesting is the mention of Dell and Gateway... Dell said they weren't >>offering Linux support on the desktop/laptop market anymore, and I >>haven't heard a peep from Gateway on the issue, one way or the other. >> > >I believe IBM is selling laptops with LinDVD installed, but that's my >flaky memory talking. >