Amarok

[Jeff Mitchell]

Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Daniel Winter <dw at danielwinter.de> wrote:
>> Am Montag 14 April 2008 03:27:25 schrieb Jim:
>>
>>> I just bought a ASUS Eee PC and it came with Amarok v1.4.3.
>>  > As new to the Linux thing, i never even heard of it, after playing with
>>  > it for a while streaming music with it, its actually one of the best
>>  > programs i have used. i love it.
>>  > I did notice that there is a newer version and i dont have a clue what
>>  > type to download.
>>  > I.E. Debian, Fedora, Free BSD and so on. not to mention i have no clue
>>  > how to even install it when i get it. Can you help..
>>  > Thanks
>>  > Jim
>>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I have an Eee-PC but I am using Archlinux on it.
>>
>>  But the default Eee uses Xandros. It's Debian based (uses apt and .deb
>>  packages). The problem: They use there one package collection not fully
>>  compatible with the packages from debian.
>>
>>  You could add the debian repositorys to your packages sources and then go and
>>  install amarok for Debian.
>>
>>  But as you are new to Linux I would not recommend that. There is the change
>>  that it will brake something.
>>
>>  So the best for you at the moment would be to wait for a new Version in the
>>  eee updater.
>>
>>  Another idea would be to install another linux distribution. There are some
>>  out there special adapted for the eee-pc.
>>
>>  Or you could go and write in some of the big eee-pc forums. I think there are
>>  people who have built custom deb packages for the eee-pc xandros linux of
>>  amarok.
>>
>>  Anyway I would suggesting that you look on  http://www.eeeuser.com/  . In
>>  there wiki you could find a lot of information about he xandros linux, different
>>  other linux version and how to installation them and so on.
>>
>>  And then there are the big discussion forum. If you ask your question about
>>  new Amarok on Eee Xandros i think they could my better help you as the people
>>  on this mailing list.
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  DanielW
> 
> Yea some great tips Daniel, thanks for sending Jim this info.
> 
> But Jim, sending a request to Asus would be quite helpful. Explain
> that you're a normal user and why you want the new features of Amarok.
> If Amarok users don't request a new version of Amarok, Asus won't put
> as much pressure on Xandros to release it. That's just simple
> economics. :) Requests from folks like Jim who didn't know of Amarok
> before the Asus are probably the most convincing.

We did hear from an Asus developer recently who said that the staff at 
Xandros are generally overworked so it is taking time to get various 
packages updated.  (It's a commercial entity, one would have thought 
Asus would have vetted this...)

Putting pressure on them both should help.  I did recommend to them that 
they update Amarok already, due to many many bugfixes.  User demands 
will not hurt  :-)

--Jeff