Linked by Robert Trembath on Wed 18th Feb 2004 01:29 UTC
Couldn't stop myself from trying the new Fedora 2-test1 release, even if it is an alpha! The 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2 and Gnome 2.5 all in the same release was just to much candy to turn away from; too bad it's more sour rather than sweet at this (beta) point than I would have expected.
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Hi
"Morons. What is this thing about licensing.... Lindows, Xandros and Slackware to name a few all include proprietary software in one from or the other- Nvidia drivers/ Java etc. All distros except RedHat and Fedora include mp3 playback capabilities out of the box. "
Fedora is a us based distribution backed by a public company called redhat which will get sued for using mp3. the goal of fedora is to be completely redistributable. they cant simply go ahead and distribute all these stuff and imagine that no one would sue them. they cant even like to such mp3 files due to DMCA
Lindows is a paid product and they get licenses for these. if you want that go buy that. whats your problem.
If you want to install these stuff in fedora a detailed tutorial is available from fedoranews.org. just search for fedora unofficial faq and you can find all stuff. fedora multimedia howto is available from tldp.org written by eric s raymond with detailed instructions so you get all the help that can be possibly provided while remaining legal and redistributable
regards
Jess