bluecurve

[Ethan Merritt]

On Monday 06 January 2003 01:12, Andrew Gorcester wrote:
> Yeah, I mean out of the box.  I'm perfectly comfortable installing
> all of the missing multimedia components myself (it's not my idea of
> a fun evening, but it's not something I'd mind doing once or twice). 

You could just switch to Mandrake instead of RedHat.  I think they
do a much nicer job of packaging an out-of-the-box desktop 
configuration.   The default installation gives you a fully functional
Xine multimedia setup, barring only the codecs with potential legal
entanglements.  Those you would have to download separately 
(but pre-packaged for Mandrake) from the Penguin Liberation Front
site (plf.zarb.org).

> Maybe I should make a CD with all of the requisite media packages,
> and an install script to use on new RH installs?  But it seems like
> something Redhat should be doing, not me.

[Shrug] Each of the distros chooses their priorities. Sounds to me
like Mandrake would be a better match for what you want.

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