On 12/1/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/1/06, David Lara <dlara@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > El Fri, 1 Dec 2006 04:22:23 -0800 (PST) > "Frank S." <franklinux392@xxxxxxxxx> escribió: > > > Why don't you create an easy ferdora like (easy ubuntu)or a fedora > > mint (linux mint) for people new to linux. please do not get me wrong > > I love Fedora but to make it usable is a lot of work and I would > > never recomed to a friend because I would slave myself to his dektop. > > people NEED a dirty Fedora as you would call it. they will call it a > > usable OS. thank you so very much for your hard work!! > > Fedora is usable for me out-of-the-box. I can listen my music (Vorbis) > and watch my videos (Theora) without need to touch anything. > > Slave to desktop ? Sorry ? > > Oh, are you talking about people using propietary software like Adobe > Flash, slaved to x86 machines and operating systems that are in Adobe > whitelist (if you use BSD you are not allowed to use Flash, read the > Flash EULA) ? > > People needs to take care about the problem of closed source programs > and formats that make restrictions. Perhaps, some day Adobe will put > (for example) x86-32 bits systems on Flash blacklist. Must Fedora > ship Flash and support this software ? Or is better to promote > (coding, testing, translate) free alternatives like Gnash ? > > The same with MP3, MOV, etc... > > Btw, you can install this software without problems. This process is > well documented in WWW. Or use other distributions that don't care > about this things. Remeber what is Fedora: "It's the best combination > of robust and latest software that exists in the free software world". > Nothing more, nothing less :) > All I need now to ban mp3 are inexpensive digital media playing devices that support .ogg
Oh yah, and a script to do the conversion. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
