Re: What I need for my kids

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:43:06PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "AS" == Andrew Sackville-West <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>     >> > Finally I've found Freevo (http://freevo.sf.net) that fulfills
>     >> my > requirements quite well and has been serving well enough so
>     >> far.  There > are still some problems with it: 1. It is not in
>     >> Debian and at the time > I checked there was no ITP for it; 2. it
>     >> depends on software not being > present in Debian; 3. and finally
>     >> it contains significant amount of > bugs.
> 
>     AS> how are you using freevo in this context?

I understand the below, but what I meant was how are you using it for
your kids? launching games? tv shows? how do the kids use it? 

> 
> 1. I installed it myself.  When it broke after one of Debian upgrades, I
>    reinstalled it.
> 
> 2. I installed the required software.  Some pieces of it might simply be
>    included into Debian, other (namely mplayer) are required by the
>    installation program despite they are actually not used.
> 
> 3. When Freevo is crashed by my kid, I restart it.
> 
> If Freevo was in Debian, it would save me steps 1. + 2. and I could
> possibly use the saved time to work on fixing 3.
> 
> BTW, there are .deb packages for Freevo available.  But: 1. I don't like
> using non-Debian .debs; 2. the packages didn't work at the time I tried
> to install them.

I agree w/ you on the non-deb .debs.

A

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