在 2007-01-26五的 09:42 +0000,Russell Jones写道:
I'm a bit confused by your request, and suggest you read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I knew very well this article and I am very glad that I have read this article when I first started to use Linux. My first OS is FreeBSD when I used it for two years without touching graphical user interface and later switched to Gentoo Linux, later swithed to SuSE. I used to compile everything myself. In the begining I hack, and I knew I was supposed to fingure out issues, not rely on other people or hope every answer is just an URI away. But later I started to suggest other people use Linux, by 'other people' I don't mean my college who worked as php programmer 3 years. I mean my mama, my old friends in college, my friends who run a coffee shop, my friend who is a college teacher of art etc. Why I want Linux to be used by normal people? Maybe someone think I am stupid, Linux is by the hackers, for the hackers, of the hackers, they are not for ordinary people. Well I won't explain why I want to suggest ordinary people to use Linux, it's very long topic. But the fact is, as I start to support ORDNIARY users I found the world changed, in the real world, peopple are no longer blamed for not being able to use a software and not able to ask smartly how to use it; people just turn a way if it's not easy to use. They vote by foot, they vote by paying for Windows. By saying 'people' I don't mean hackers like you and I. So, I chose the easiest-to-learn Linux distribution: SuSE and ubuntu. These distrubtions don't expect users to be hackers. For ordinary users, a solution must be easy, a few clicks away. If the answer to "how can I play mp3 with any music managing softare on SuSE" is not a few clicks away, people turns away from it (again, these people are not hackers), and thus I have to turn away from it too because I already made up my mine that I want to support 'oridnary people', or 'stupid people' by common sense. Take Ubuntu as example, I didn't type one single command to let user start to enjoy Rhythmbox. I just click. So why should I recommend SuSE over Ubuntu next time to an ORDINARY person?
The place you should have started is not here, but the default home page, http://www.opensuse.org/ . If you search for "mp3", the seventh item or so has the text "HOWTO enable MP3 support" which takes you here, ultimately: http://en.opensuse.org/User:Xenmaster#MP3_support_for_XMMS
You could have done that.
However, I think you'll find it simpler to just add the VLC repository: http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories#VLC_VideoLan_Cli...
If you get stuck, follow the guidelines in the first link (to catb.org): they may guide you back here under certain circumstances.
Please just believe me I can follow this guide. You know the context I ask my question, I wish to know if there is a way for ordinary users to start enjoy music with a music managing software. I actually am thankful you bring up this topic of how to ask good questions, because I want more people pay attention on what I am doing and what people like me doing: to help spread Linux to non-techies. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org