Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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"And you must buy your DVD player software,..."
I don't run Windows but I'm pretty sure Windows Media Player can play DVD's and is free - no differently than say mplayer before decss.
"*some guy over Germany* that might've actually put a backdoor into his package"
Watch the language - american! (I'm assuming so) I actually use Packman, I'm grateful for the site, I have the greatest confidence in the site - actually more than any american site - and the site really doesn't deserve crap like that. Not that I think that they care - knowing it's from an american. Remember, a lot of Linux is actually from Germany or close by - KDE, Qt, OpenOffice, a lot of multimedia (xine, mplayer, cd burning, ...), Knoppix, Reiser, ddd, etc.
I like the idea of a subscription based update service. I will support it and I think all distributors should give it a shot.