<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I don't know about a distribution to use, but I'd image they all might have trouble buffering YouTube videos, disconnecting from wifi, suspending the laptop, and then still being able to play them later.</div><div><br></div><div>I suggest you use your favorite distro and a program called youtube-dl: <br><a href="http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/">http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's in ubuntu and debian repos, but I believe there's always a little arms race going on with YouTube, so that version doesn't always work. Get the latest from github instead.</div><div><br></div><div>You can use this to download YouTube videos and later watch them with a video playing program like VLC.<br><br></div><div><br>On May 12, 2011, at 10:33 PM, bruce coston <<a href="mailto:jane_ikari@yahoo.com">jane_ikari@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I need to get a distro on one of my many small -ish laptop partitions that will play back youtube videos I suck at the library after I suspend to disk and go home during our many summer internet outages . My elive install suffers real problems with this after I take it off disk suspend back home . Kde3. prefered , the kde. situation has me contemplating open bsd. . I could sacrifice my 32g usb flash drive to this project . <br><br>I don't have the skill to do this anymore and need to know ahead of the event . <br><br>I'd also like to get squid on my untangle server box so I can see most of what I've done previously by just going back to the page . But I'm reluctant to lug it around . <br><br>If it's easy to miss serving up ads via domain resolution tricks , I'm not against getting that benefit cheap and easy . <br>How come a bunch of distro. don't let you
administer graphically anymore ? It makes it look like all the elitist hatred talk about linux = true . <br><br>I'm also not so healthy lately . <br> - Sincerely - Bruce<br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>conspire mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>