FreedomBox ot?

[Mike Keithley]

My machine is an 800 Meg Pentium with 512 MB of Ram and an 8 GB SCSI disk.
I'm using a cable connection and this might be why it's working so "well".

It works snappily enough without distortion from Dectalk and some of the
audio streams work great.  I think there is a problem with the distributed
mplayer binary in that it won't decode some audio streams.  Also, the
Freedombox Media Player doesn't close when streams of voice messages are
finished.  Text messages go through snappy and fine though there is
occasionally instability that causes Freedom box to crash--sometimes
leaving X running and sometimes shutting it down.  Haven't played with
chat.  A stream that works fine is the BBC world headlines section of
the news and talk radio section.