Subj : Re: Music Sites For Linux
To   : TRACKER1
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Tue Aug 23 2005 06:31 pm

RM>> A friend of mine was playing with Fedora Core 4 and then tried
  >> Suse 9.3 but both included little or no support for MP3 playing

TR>If you do an XMMS source build it will have mp3 support, redhat/fedora remove
  >it because of potential for patent litigation... considering what
  >fraunhoffer(sp) did to the encoding tools, I don't blame them. :)

Thanks for the input from everyone..

My friend installed something he called a multi media package
and it seemed to fix the MP3 situation but then he got in a huff
when it wouldn't play most of the video files he wanted it to..
I think he's gone back to stew in Win XP again for a while..

He's one of these 'instant gratification' types and doesn't
want to spend a lot of time searching for repair files.
In a way I can undestand how it would be annoying to get a
5 CD install set for the newest version of an OS and have one
thing after another not work when he's used to them working
'out of the box' from a One CD Win XP install..  I know Linux
comes with a lot more software but I suppose he'd say it's
lacking a lot of the common basics.

Personally though I would put some time into an OS to at least
see if it's going to be good even if it does take a while to
get it that way. I still run Win 98 so I always have to update
a ton of stuff and search for drivers for newer hardware after
a fresh install that would work fine without that in Win XP.

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