For a public surfstation available for free we needed to have a system, that just simply always works. No user should be able to reset any configuration-settins, change the wallpaper, modify favorites or anything like that. The decision of the operating system was easy: Linux! The needed tasks to install this system are the following: [...]
I was looking for a smaller audioplayer application than amarok in Ubuntu Hardy. “XMMS” came immediately to my mind, but I couldn’t find it in the software repositories. A quick search with the help of Google led me to this page:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Audacious
It looks nearly the same as XMMS and the usage is also the same – so that’s the application of my choice for me now.