Chapter 10. Sights, Sounds, and Other Fun Things

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Starting Out: Configuring Your Sound and Video Cards

• Playing Music and Listening to the Radio

• Making Your Own Music

• Burning CDs and DVDs

• TV and Video: Xine and Mplayer

• Linux and Your Digital Camera

• Editing Images with The GIMP

• Gaming on Linux

There is more than work to be done on your SUSE Linux machine. Your desktop can play music and serve as a radio. Movies are indeed made on Linux boxes. You can create and edit images of all types and move pictures from your digital camera to your PC. You can even watch TV on your monitor (with the right video card)!

Linux is not yet the gamers' OS of choice, but there are more ways to have fun on Linux than you may have thought. You'll learn what's available in this chapter, too.

Because most of this is visually oriented, we'll emphasize the tools for GNOME and KDE, but there are some interesting command-line tools for multimedia to learn about, too.