On Wednesday 11 August 2010 08:05:47 Graham Lauder wrote:
Additionally common proprietary codecs and drivers should be on the DVD or at first launch a script should launch asking the user if they want Video and Audio codecs installed so they can play their windows media files.
Try first launching Amarok in 11.3.
Note that unless there is an openSUSE.com incorporated on some island in the Carribean or the Channel that takes over the entire infrastructure and distribution some of these things will be hard to implement and/or prohibitively expensive.
Then one wonders how Ubuntu UE does it on install and you don't even have to ask.
I wondered too and looked. - Canonical is based on the Isle of Man [1] (0% corporation tax) and I guess that it is firewalled from Shuttleworth's Squillions to delay it becoming an attractive target to codec license holders and patent trolls. Plus, they don't have any big-name kernel developers who'd get irritated by their employer riding roughshod over their copyrights by distributing binary drivers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd. As a native of Northumberland, England I've spent enough time at the end of a rural narrowband connection to feel your pain, but I appreciate that benefits have their costs - whether it's unspoilt country life->slow internet or taking Free software seriously->not having every feature on a plate. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org