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:2007-09-18
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:2007-09-06
If it's illegal for ubuntu to use their current method have any lawsuits been brought against them, or I'd even guess dell?
The codec buddy from Fedora requires you to pay a fee to get legal, PROPRIETARY codecs, mmmmmmm'kay ?
I don't know if you mean to, but you're coming off sounding quite snide and it's not appreciated.
By the way, this is fedora's information regarding codec buddy via:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureCodecBuddy
MP3 Use Case
1. Assume that the default application for MP3 playback is GStreamer-aware. A default installation of Fedora sets Rhythmbox as the default.
2. User double clicks on an MP3 file on the desktop.
3. Rhythmbox tries to play the file, but cannot since there is no MP3 codec on the machine.
4. Instead of a "cannot play this file" error message, Fedora 8 will show the user a nicer window, with a bit more information:
* One or two sentences explaining why there is no MP3 support.
* The option to "do nothing, never bother me again".
* The option to "learn more", and redirection to a website with a longer discussion of why Freedom isn't Free, etc.
* The option to go to a website where legal support for such codecs exists, if available
5.
The last option there will get the MP3 decoder plugin from Fluendo (where it is offered gratis), and then all GStreamer applications will be able to play MP3 files. The user has solved their problem in a legal way. See Installing Fluendo MP3 Plug-in
Correct me if I'm wrong, but by definition "gratis" means without charge.... so where does paying for a codec come into play?
Edited 2007-09-20 21:19
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