05-27-2008
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Originally Posted by
zaxxon
I guess about all Linux'es are downwards compatible but maybe try Ubuntu which you can download for free and is very user friendly. It usually comes with a graphical desktop, but you can always open up a shell and start digging into it.
Or Debian, or or ... there are so many ^^
How hard is Debian to use? As in, to a complete newb to *NIXes.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gbemol
GBEMOL(1) General Commands Manual GBEMOL(1)
NAME
gbemol -- graphical frontend for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
SYNOPSIS
gbemol [-mclphf]
DESCRIPTION
gbemol is a graphical frontend for the Music Player Daemon (MPD), written in C and using GTK+ toolkit. It allows one to use MPD with a
user-friendly interface.
Features include an easy-to-use, tag-oriented library browser, a two mode playlist, cover art support (APIC tag only, for now), system tray
icon docking, song, album and artist information
More info at project homepage: http://gbemol.sourceforge.net/
OPTIONS
-m Start minimized to tray
-f Start on full mode.
-c Start on compact mode
-l Start with library selected
-p Start with playlist selected
-h Help message
SEE ALSO
mpd (1)
Project homepage: http://gbemol.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Andrea Colangelo <warp10@ubuntu.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version pub-
lished by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
GBEMOL(1)