2010/10/16 stan <gr...@q.com> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:48:28 +0200 > Valent Turkovic <valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Audio and video codecs including flash are preinstalled. We are going > > the path of Linux Mint to make user experience best as possible right > > out of the box, and for not that means also including few non-open > > components. As soon as they become redundant we will drop them for > > open source ones. But unfortunately for now there must be few > > proprietary pieces in order to make linux destop usable for non geeks > > and non developers ie. regular users. > > > > > I did a search a few years ago, and I think the patents on mpeg > start to expire next year and continue to expire in dribs and drabs > over the next few years. I suspect that is part of the reason for the > new proprietary video standard being proposed for html5. ;-) > > So you should be home free in a couple of years. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >
I'm going to give my two cents to this project of Fusion Linux: MANDATORY PACKAGES FOR EVERY NEW LINUX USER: - audacious - cheese - kmess - pidgin - gimp - gparted - kscd - sound-juicer - xchat - kget - kdenlive - k3b - banshee - xsane - vlc Hope you can add this list to your remix :D Good Luck!! -- <-Manuel Escudero-> Linux User #509052 @GWave: jmlev...@googlewave.com @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6
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