On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sunda...@fedoraproject.org > wrote:
> Ashok Gautham wrote: > Fedora was on my list because of aesthetics. But it looks > >> like Fedora does >> not, unlike ubuntu, give you a 1 click way of adding mp3 codecs etc. >> > > More like Fedora is a more oriented towards Free and open source software > and cannot because it is patent encumbered codec and a US based distribution > cannot legally point to patent encumbered codecs. However it is trivial to > get mp3 codec support in Fedora > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/ > > To enable some extras, repositories: > > # rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-10.rpm > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm > > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm > > # yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly I understand that and I appreciate it. But imagine clueless new users who expect things "to work" --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
