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Hello, <br>
<br>
I have just finished installing BLAG linux (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blagblagblag.org/">http://www.blagblagblag.org/</a> ) to replace a SuSE 8.2 system that fried
in various ways I do not yet fully understand, practically the same
day that I had finally gotten it configured to play just about any
media file I could find. It appears, from the installation and startup
visuals, that it is based on FCx, so it will probably run on
your machine. I am still trying to rebuild something resembling the
SuSE system that died, so I am just tasting the flavor of this
particular linux. So far, it seems to be very madia friendly (xmms
{with mp3 support}, mplayer, xine, etc, all on one CD). I did an
"Everything" install to save time on package selection and since I have
more than enough room on this HD, so I am confident that there is much
more here that I have not even discovered yet.<br>
<br>
I would recommend it highly.<br>
<br>
I know that RH took mp3 functionality out of 9 (easily replaced with
rpms from somewhere out there), but I'm not sure what fedora does,
since, until now, I have only used a couple of FC installations
briefly, as I have not been able to get Samba running properly on it.
Same
here with blag, so far, except this time I am determined to get it
working, since it also comes with XFce and blackbox window managers,
which is nice. No KDE, though, so kaffeine, one of the better media
players I have found, could be tricky to install. <br>
<br>
Any help with Samba on fedora would be most
welcome. Thanks.<br>
<br>
Hope it works for you, <br>
<i><b><big><big><big>S.</big></big></big></b></i><br>
<br>
Advent Systems wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid418D9D6E.8040303@verizon.net" type="cite">Hello
All,
<br>
This my be a really stupid question but does anyone know if you can
play multimedia files in FC2, mp3 files for starters? If you read my
previous posts I'm using FC2 for the first time. I was unable to
purchase a boxed set so I have no manuals, the xmms site (my favorite
player) only supports FC1 and other sites seem to imply FC2 is not
multimedia friendly. Since I work in the AV industry I need something
at least as usable as suse or mandrake. I dont need it to do actual
production work as I use industry specific windows based programs for
this at work. Any advice on a multimedia friendly based distro would
help.
<br>
<br>
Thanks,
<br>
Bob Randal <br>
PS: I all reddy tried coral Linux, RH7, mandrake 8 & 9, and suse
8. They worked fine as far as the multimedia aspect but as you see
from my previous posts in the past week FC2 is the only distro that
will not lockup my computer. I'm sure I could put suse back on
right now and it may run fine for a few days but thats nuts. If I
cant find something it's back to windows for a while :(
<br>
<br>
BR
<br>
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