On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:14:39 +0100, you wrote:
Chadley Wilson wrote:
Well let me add a few c's
I have successfully setup and configured 700 Desktops all with full multimedia and that includes DVD, MP3 and so on ...
And where did you get the MP3 support from? From the retail DVD as it was in 9.2? (Don't know about 9.3.) If yes, I didn't find it there. (This is not about OpenSUSE.)
Or did you get it from packman? I.e., from a 3rd party SUSE-unsupported package repository?
You're all very quick to insult the OP as being an idiot. But you don't mention that there is no MP3 support on the retail DVD any more. And using packman is seriously difficult beyond one-stop downloading - there are no automatic security online updates available via yast, as online_update handles only SUSE repositories. For online updates, one has to resort to (SUSE-unsupported) apt4rpm which is not nice for the general user.
If your read the OP again, you see that he quarrels mostly about MP3 and Multimedia (except his boot problem). And concerning this area, the 10.0 retail DVD *is* not good. In fact, my brother (who used SUSE since 5.x!) plans to abandon SUSE exactly for that reason. So the OP is not the only person with that problem.
If I'm wrong and if there is MP3 and Multimedia support on the retail DVD, please tell me where.
Joachim
The root of the multimedia issue isn't really caused by SuSE and it's not limited to SuSE linux. If you want to play games and watch movies, either buy a console or use windows. Linux is still (and I sincerely hope remains in the future) targeted at people who have some brains and a need for a computer. When they dumb linux down to the point where it really competes with windows for the same target audience, I'm afraid that it will wind up being as useless as windows. If you need to play audio and video on linux, you need to learn how to install the software. It's not difficult, the software isn't particularly hard to find, and $DIETY knows the instructions are repeated AT LEAST weekly (if not daily) on a dozen mailing lists and newsgroups. If you can live with the formats that aren't licensed to death the support is standard in all the distros that I've looked at. Consider that the legal (and financial) quagmire that makes it difficult to provide native support for the aforemented licensed formats is one of the factors that has given birth to OSS and linux... Besides, speaking as one of the people who called the OP an idiot, I was making fun of his almost incoherent bitching. He didn't actually specify any particular problem or problems and request help (everything he mentioned is solvable) he just whined. I will continue to make fun of lusers like that right up to my last moment on this planet. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.