The openSUSE development team has announced that openSUSE 10.3 Release Candidate 1 is available for testing. "After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team is happy to announce that RC1 looks brilliant and is now available for download. We consider this release to be feature complete, stable, and suitable for testing from any user. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the Roadmap."
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Member since:2007-09-06
Yeah I know there is the package search engine, and the community site, and I've used both before, but they require a little knowledge/googling before hand. Ubuntu's solution does not.
Hmm I didn't really consider the fact about being US-based, however fedora (Redhat) is releasing a 'codec-buddy' which sounds very similar to ubuntu's solution, and fedora is sponsered by a US organization (Redhat) just as opensuse is sponsered by novell, so where does the difference lay?
Edited 2007-09-20 20:08
Member since:2007-09-18
The codec buddy from Fedora requires you to pay a fee to get legal, PROPRIETARY codecs, mmmmmmm'kay ?
Ubuntu solution is illegal in the USA and is based only on free software. (maybe it will change, time will tell)
openSUSE has a mixed view on it. It has a one click install that ease the pain of installing free replacement of proprietary codecs when you know the website that serves it but it stills delivers proprietary things on its non-oss repositories like Real Player.
Member since:2005-07-29
There is something like a "click here for codecs button":
Packman is your friend.
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
This procedure is legal in Germany, I hope that it is legal in other countries, too.
Member since:2005-07-29
I have just installed the OpenSuse 10.3-RC1 and found in Yast a package called "opensuse-codecs-installer":
"opensuse-codecs-installer - Cross platform codec installation for openSUSE
A cross platform component for multimedia frameworks to use to initiate package installation for missing codecs, specific to openSUSE. Supported by GStreamer and Xine."
So try it out.
Yast refers to the following URL:
http://software.opensuse.org/codecs
It is so damned simple:
"To go through a simple wizard guiding you through the installation process of some additional multimedia codecs where necessary, simply click on one of the links below: (...)"
:-)
Edit: Correction of a typo.
Edited 2007-09-21 14:45
Member since:
2005-07-13
The 1-click install is available from the opensuse-community.org website, which will be a vast improvement over the process with previous versions.
Novell is, unfortunately in this case, a US-based organization and can't run the risk of making themselves a legal target by facilitating the circumvention of patented media restrictions, so it is not likely that they will ever be able to include a "click here for codecs" button. As long as they continue to look the other way while the community works at arm's length to facilitate this themselves (hence the creation of the opensuse-community.org site), then new users will not have to struggle to deal with this, despite the lack of a built-in option.
It's not perfect, just a hell of an improvement.