Review of featured applications

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:40:46AM +1100, Robert Ancell wrote:
> Sure.  It was hovering at the top of the B-list for me :)
> >> yofrankie (3d platform, no clear objectives - boring!)
> >>      
> > This game has been pretty popular when it was out and I think we
> > should really include it in the first link. For those not aware, it's
> > the game from the blender fundation which released this game some
> > weeks after "big buck bunny". The game is short, but it shows that you
> > can do some nice 3D effects on GNU/Linux
> >
> >    
> I was really disappointed when I tried it!  I'd never got it working due 
> to the 3D requirement (yay now for Lucid graphics drivers!) but my 

For evaluation of 3D games, it would probably be wise to specify what
set of drivers you expect to see good rendering results in.

> impressions were:
> Ran it - really professional looking menu, nice starting world to choose 
> which level.  Walk into first level.  Not obvious what to do.  Walk 
> around a bit, nowhere much to go, just a few creatures running around 
> which you can kill, but no reason why to do. Some textures seem to be 
> missing.  It feels like it has all the graphics but no gameplay.  I 
> think Yo Frankie 2 is what we want...
> >> miro (media player, don't see the value over totem+websites)
> >>      
> > It's approximately the same than if you say "I don't see the added
> > value to an RSS reader VS firefox + going over all my blogs/planet". I
> > completely disagree for that one.
> >
> >    
> Is it applicable to a wide audience?

I've found miro handy for viewing various free content like Ted talks,
BBC/PBS, Hulu, Youtube, etc.  I can't really use mythtv (due to digital
cable), so miro was what I settled on.

I tried to set my dad up with it, but he's really only interested in
Hulu and we had some issues with flash so he stuck with firefox for it.
(I'm blaming video drivers rather than miro, as it's been problem-free
on my Intel box.)

Bryce