Comments on: Democracy 0.9.6 is out, but is it worth the upgrade?

By: Donnie

Donnie — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:16:25 +0000

I also added the democracy repository to my sources and installed the Feisty version. It runs fine for me until I actually play a video. Videos play fine, but as soon as they end, the program crashes every time.

By: earobinson

earobinson — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:51:10 +0000

I think its really neat how there are 2 kinds of linux users, the ones who are just going to dive right in, and the ones who are going to hold off till its more stable.

I do think that the democracy has made enough mistakes in the past that they are a cause for concern now.

By: maxo

maxo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:48:44 +0000

I look forward to giving the new version a try. I have never found this program to be stable, testing it on three different PCs on 6.10 and 7.04. The program looks like it would be cool if it works. Here’s to hoping it run without a problem when I get home tonight.

By: Trip

Trip — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:53:45 +0000

I’m with Rich on this one. Top programme, but It needs more stability on Linux machines before I’m willing to use it full time.
I’ve been testing out PenguinTV at the moment too. Not as feature rich as Democracy, but it shows promise. http://penguintv.sourceforge.net/ – for anyone that’s interested :)

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:25:06 +0000

As much as I like democracy, I’m waiting until it hits 1.0 and the name change before trying it on Feisty again. I’m hoping they’ve got everything worked out when that hits.

By: earobinson

earobinson — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:45:24 +0000

timf, you may want to report this to the democracy guys, they have forums and seem to read there blog comments. However this is good to know because it means that people might have a problem when they go to upgrade from feisty to gutsy.

Lets hope they fix it before the release.

By: timf

timf — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:41:20 +0000

Doesn’t work on Gutsy for me.