Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (95 mails)

["Cristian Rodriguez R." <judas_iscariote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexander van Loon escribió:
> Hello all,

[snip comments about usual gnome (un)usability]

> Also there don't seem to be any easy instructions for enabling playback
> of restricted audio and video formats on openSUSE. Ubuntu has this page
> - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats - which gives the
> simple command "sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-pitfdll
> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse" to enable playback of restricted
> audio and video formats. 

Doing so would expose Novell to a number of legal risks, if Canonical is
willing to get sued that's fine ;-)


In the NTFS section ntfs-3g is not mentioned
> (which is an apt-get away in Ubuntu). 

ntfs-3g is enabled by default on 10.3 (it seems that it is not covered
by any patent at the present ..warning IANAL)

Concerning the NVIDIA drivers, it
> tells me to get the official NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA itself? 

Yes, Binary kernel drivers violate the linux kernel license (ohh.. GPL..
well.. the same license thay some canonical founder came to defend here
some months ago :) )


>
> Launchpad -

Launchpad is propietary software :P