On 11/16/05, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The major roadblock is in running the media playes for mp3s, mpegs, VCDs or DVDs.
All you have to do is install gstreamer-plugins package, which installs all codecs necessary to play all types of audio formats, using yum or apt-get. On Suse, you must add several Yast sources for your distribution. I recommend using http://packman.links2linux.org as an installation source.
Install xinelibs package to play all types of video formats (except windoze media, ofcourse).
SuSe 10 has CD mounting problems.
Explain!
Ubuntu 5.04 did not create a root password so it had to be created by booting into recovery mode. Even then, in the user mode gui, it does not accept the root password for admin utilities and says 'password incorrect'.
After an Ubuntu install, use sudo passwd root to change the root password as normal user. You can login to X as root by selecting the right option in Administration>>Login Screen Setup.
warning: mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b error: Failed dependencies:
You didnt download the dependencies! That's why I say use something like apt-get or yum to install all software. They will take care of all dependencies. I never face any dependency problems because of apt-get on Ubuntu.
The point is that how much time does one have to spend on a linux system to get it running properly?
30 minutes! Maybe less...depends on how much you want to install.
Now in this tight schedule, how is a production engineer expected to load linux for the latest hardware, with all its dependency problems?
I bought my hardware individually from Lam road somewhere in January. At that time I didn't have an idea about yum and apt-get. So i was in a similar situation like you. But today I know exactly what I want and how to get it. So its very easy. Its easier and faster to install software on a Linux machine than on the 'other' OS.
My users are mainly home and small office ones and they have a lot of multimedia activity going on.
They can have everything on a Linux machine, exept gaming I guess which is not yet as developed and easy as it should be on a Linux machine.
Well, hope my reply helps you in some way.
Best of luck! ;)
-- Regards, Sanket Medhi, sanketmedhi [at] gmail [dot] com