Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy. 
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5 minutes to watch DVDs :
1. got to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon
2. choose the closest contrib and PLF mirrors and copy the urpmi.addmedia generated lines
3. type 'urpmi libdvdcss2 xine-dvdnav'
4. open your DVD player, insert a DVD, open xine, click on "DVD", the DVD menu appears. Enjoy !
No need to boot back to windows, no need to fight with rpms, urpmi solves all your dependenies, downloads all rpms that are needed and install them.
You would have asked on the mandrakeclub forum (no need to be a member) or on the mailing list, you would have had your answer.
And really, if you want to have DVD out of the box, don't blame Linux. Just blame the DMCA.
I wrote a guide to setup urpmi and install any software here (flightgear, gocr, which is included in Mandrake packages, anything) :
http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33668481