Kent West wrote: > Oh Man! This means I've talked my sister into a Linux box for > nothing; playing DVDs was an important issue for her. At least > we're still in the planning stage. I guess it's back to her > original plan of getting a blue-box G3 (at three times the cost). > At least I'll be able to put LinuxPPC on it....
If playing DVDs is a big issues then, yes, Linux is not a good idea at the moment. However, this may change shortly... there are several LInux-DVD projects out there that are working on a solution linuxdvd.corepower.com is the home page for one of them. the folks at LinuxTV(www.linuxtv.org) have also developed a DVD hardware decoder/driver, and are looking for a company to market it. Within the next 6 months to a year DVDs on Linux should be a (small) reality, although only a small subset of the current hardware will probably be supported. --Evan