Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 07.23, Paul Thompson wrote:
> 6. No MP3 encoding -- Yeah I know OGG and compiling LAME, but out of the
> box and legal is not there.

Show me one system where it is! It's certainly not Windows. There, it's all 
Windows Media Format, no mp3 out of the box there

> 7. NO Video playing -- Yeah I know, compile the 
> decoders, but out fo the box...

Show me one system where it is! It's certainly not windows. There, it's all 
Windows Media Format. No DVDs there (yes! I said no DVD playing in windows! 
The people who complain about it in linux have obviously never tried to set 
it up in windows on a machine where they didn't get the software on a CD 
along with the DVD drive. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE), for most avi codecs you have 
to get third party packages etc. In fact, you get MORE codecs out of the box 
in linux than in windows

also, there's no need to compile lame or anything else. It's all been done for 
you. Go to http://packman.links2linux.org for some excellent suse packages 
for all your multimedia needs

> 8. Networking is a pain to set up 

huh? One-click setup for most things, although I agree that wireless seems to 
be a bit of a pain.

> 11. 3D acceleration on video guaranteed to crash

Not from where I'm standing. Quake, Unreal, armyops all work like a charm

> 12. Cant write to NTFS drives.

Ah. I guess you complain to the windows mailing lists about their inability to 
write to reiser/xfs/jfs drives as well, right?

> 13. Inconsistent interfaces to application.

That's true everywhere. Apps in windows aren't consistent either. In fact, the 
KDE interface is probably the most consistent you're likely to find anywhere 
on the x86 platform