[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 available
From the official announcement...
As highlights, we'd like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily optimised and improved package
Does this make openSUSE the _first_ Linux distribution to provide legal MP3 decoding as an integral part of the distribution? (or did I miss something?) If so, is this being promoted as a big deal? I think it probably should be. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu October 4 2007, Clayton scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
From the official announcement...
As highlights, we'd like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily optimised and improved package
Does this make openSUSE the _first_ Linux distribution to provide legal MP3 decoding as an integral part of the distribution? (or did I miss something?) If so, is this being promoted as a big deal? I think it probably should be.
C.
Wow! Everybody in the Universe seems to be signed in to get the files, no one seems to have much more than the very early bits of it.. :) I'll leave mine up for a while, if it ever downloads.. but at least it has begun to download.. if it doesn't work out, I'll try some of the other locations tonight. /me knocks self in head.. gotta remember to look for a different url than the main one when the first announcements are out. BTW was there an answer to the question of the legality of MP3s or are we going w/ Novel's licensure of Realplayer? ( I mainly use Ogg-Vorbis anyway.. but some stuff is still MP3 only so it's good to know.... ) -- j I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
As highlights, we'd like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily optimised and improved package
Does this make openSUSE the _first_ Linux distribution to provide legal MP3 decoding as an integral part of the distribution? (or did I miss something?) If so, is this being promoted as a big deal? I think it probably should be.
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BTW was there an answer to the question of the legality of MP3s or are we going w/ Novel's licensure of Realplayer?
Well... I think this was an answer of sorts.... the announcement stated that openSUSE 10.3 comes with the Fluendo MP3 decoder. This is the legal MP3 decoder option for Linux. You can buy it from Fluendo... but the announcement says it's included in 10.3. This is a big deal - to moe anyway. It wasn't really hyped... at least not anywhere I've seen outside of the email announcement. C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I don't think it's the first, I believe Linspire has been including legal MP3 playback for a while. Still, it's great. Although MP3 has been possible legally on SUSE out of the box using either RealPlayer or Helix Banshee. On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:26 +0200, Clayton wrote:
As highlights, we'd like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME 2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily optimised and improved package
Does this make openSUSE the _first_ Linux distribution to provide legal MP3 decoding as an integral part of the distribution? (or did I miss something?) If so, is this being promoted as a big deal? I think it probably should be.
[snip]
BTW was there an answer to the question of the legality of MP3s or are we going w/ Novel's licensure of Realplayer?
Well... I think this was an answer of sorts.... the announcement stated that openSUSE 10.3 comes with the Fluendo MP3 decoder. This is the legal MP3 decoder option for Linux. You can buy it from Fluendo... but the announcement says it's included in 10.3. This is a big deal - to moe anyway. It wasn't really hyped... at least not anywhere I've seen outside of the email announcement.
C
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