justin flavin wrote:
> lets face it - just plonking say Ubuntu on your Dad's system involves
> change sources and grabbing all those extra packages to play mp3s ,
> realplayer and such like. Much nicer if those codecs/players are
> actually in the distro itself - far less hassle.
Yep. It's astonishing that FC4 ships with half a dozen media players of
one kind or another, absolutely NONE of which can play anything -- no
MP3, no OGG, no WMV, no AVI, etc etc. WTF are they there for? You have
to install mplayer, <rant>which under FC4 and RHEL has 19 non-installed
dependencies (I counted them), of which two (libslang and liblzo) have
to be installed with --nodeps because they rely on some piece of dipshit
postinstall script which references a facility removed from the C++
libraries several years ago.</rant> Linux ready for the desktop? I
don't think so.
///Peter
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