[vorbis] Vorbis on Legacy hardware

[Corey Miller]

> I seriously doubt you'd be able to play Vorbis files on a system
> this slow.  All the developers have said that Vorbis takes roughly
> the same about of CPU power to play that MP3 plays -- and I couldn't
> play stereo 44 kHz MP3 files smoothly on my 486/66.  (I could just
> *barely* play mono ones.)

        The sound quality doesn't have to be terribly great, or good at all.  
The idea behind my distro is basically I know so many people in their 
teens that live in my area that are given really old bad systems that 
their parents used to use 10 years ago.  I just want them to be able to 
quickly install something that gives them a computer that's even 
remotely useful.  Music listening would be something highly demanded by 
people of that age group, regardless of quality.

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