"Its official release is just under three months away, and Ubuntu 8.04, or Hardy Heron, promises some great improvements over the already user-friendly Ubuntu 7.10 (also known as Gusty Gibbon). This is a look at the fourth Alpha release of Hardy; including many of the applications that are now included by default and the major changes that will improve stability and usability. Among these are the addition of Firefox 3 and Remote Desktop on the applications side, and a new method for systems control known as Policy Kit, which enables the administrator to unlock certain functions for normal users."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Wow... cool. I must say, though, it's about time. Ubuntu's been doing this sort of thing with extreme ease for at least two versions now, thanks to Automatix.... Whereas Suse have historically never been very codec-friendly. Back in the day (9.3-10.1 or so I think) they had a codecs package that intentionally left out MP3 and some other formats because of *possible* patent concerns for users who *might* be US-based. And they didn't mention this anywhere; they kept on claiming to support the stuff while actually leaving it out. It's nice to see the mentality seems to have changed.
Member since:2006-01-10
Well, that's kind of what I was referring to. I had to look around for a few minutes to find that site. It needed to be a bit more in your face.
I was quite impressed by how polished OpenSuSE 10.3 was, though I still prefer the standard Gnome way of having a top and bottom panel (which I did configure myself in OpenSuSE anyhow.)
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2007-05-05
Not the case with openSUSE 10.3: all you need to do is head over to:
http://opensuse-community.org/Multimedia
The 1-click-install there will install all the multimedia codecs for you and it will add the popular 3rd-party repositories for you that you would need.