bluecurve

[Greg Stark]

I agree w/ Ethan;

Multimedia certainly isn't and wont be RedHat's focus...  As a pure 
productivity suite, this is a really nice desktop.  Iv been craving 
coherency in my GUI since the begining of fancy X windowing systems, I 
think redhat is the *best* effort iv seen to date.  I have my mac for 
multimedia stuff, for work applications, redhat 8/bluecurve is a 
wonderful suite.

My next step is to actually dualboot this OS at work...  I'v got no 
clue how to join my linux computer onto a windows domain...  Ugh.

Greg


On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 08:19  AM, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> 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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