On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:54, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:30 -0700, James Mason wrote:
I'd like to see us build some more media-friendly apps. Boxee, in particular, annoys me by being Ubuntu-only.
??? It doesn't market itself as Ubuntu-only. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxee
But there are numerous such applications [starting with Myth TV]. Personally I see little overlap with a workstation / PC distribution, and a 'media-center',
Plus one million and then some.... openSUSE has no real reasonable possibility for Boxee or SopCast without compiling from source, crossing your fingers and praying to your favorite deity. Veetle kind of works... but poorly. Why do I list these? They are all apps I use on my MediaPC (for local media, Hulu, sports streams from Myp2p.eu etc). This MediaPC currently runs Ubuntu. Why Ubuntu? Because there are packages for each of these, and/or they "just work" in Ubuntu. I've tried time and again to set it all up on openSUSE, but I don't want to (nor have the time to) sit there, pull down the sources and build these apps and then spend 2 hours trying to convince Firefox to hand off sop: links correctly :-( Or other little non-MediaPC things like say... making sure Skype works "out-of-the-box" when a user installs it on openSUSE. Right now, that's not the case. If you install from a 64 bit LiveCD... unless you know it won't work after you install the provided RPM, you will spend an hour or so hunting down multiple missing packages and trying to launch Skype... hunting more missing packages etc etc. I guess what i'm saying is... there's a lot of hopefully easy stuff that we can do to take the rough/sharp edges off an otherwise solid distribution. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org