Hacking OpenSUSE

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 07:15 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 10/07/2005 11:39 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 01:19 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 07:48:10PM -0700, Net Llama! took 7 lines to write:
> >> > For all of you in love with OpenSuSE:
> >> > http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/
> >> 
> >> Nice link. My boxed SUSE 10.0 arrived yesterday. I've decided installing
> >> from DVD is very convenient and beats swapping 5 CD-ROMs. :-) All I need
> >> now are the Win32 codecs and I can watch Windows only videos.
> > 
> > For 9.3, SUSE had 3 multimedia packs that you get as part of the on-line
> > update. You have to select them. They add things like MP3 support.
> > Perhaps the codecs as well. I do not know if these exist for 10.0 as I
> > am sorting out a bad install CD image. Which is taking forever. Even
> > with torrent.
> 
> Oh, so you love SuSE's complicated maze of download options too?  At 
> least its not just me.  Although once I actually figured out what I 
> needed to download, the torrents were moving fairly quickly (i was 
> averaging 350kb/s).

Yes. I love them. Just like English measurement systems over metric :) 

I do not think the SUSE position on this is different from any other
Linux vendor. RH do not provide MP3 or proprietary software directly.
For the same reason as SUSE. The owners of the proprietary stuff do not
allow it. I cannot fault SUSE for following the law. They did not write
it. But they would be fools not to follow it. At least it is available
very simply. If I ever do an on-line update, the stuff is there. And the
base OS install will even do this as a final step. Not hidden or obscure
- but done at my initiation. Which seems to satisfy the owners of the
proprietary software.

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