On 8/29/05, Josh Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 09:10 -0700, Josh Coffman > > wrote: > > > Let me say first, I like Fedora if only for the > > fact > > > I've learned a lot getting it working on my > > laptop. > > > > > > I'd like a distro that will run well on my hp > > z5440 > > > laptop, and is easy to update, and makes a good > > > desktop for non-techies. This weekend I went to > > > moviefone.com to check previews for some movies > > and it > > > wouldn't play any even though I have the mplayer > > > plugin installed in firefox. I don't mind solving > > > problems; actually I kinda like it. I just want to > > do > > > it all the time. > > > > > What's the link to one of the previews? I see > > they're using flash on > > the front page which won't run under a 64bit firefox > > no matter what the > > distro. Trying to get one of the trailers, I ran > > into a need for a > > windows-only download plugin. > > > > Here's a couple links: > the movie: > http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=21987 > > the preview: > http://mp.aol.com/video.index.adp?pmmsid=1342852&mid=21987&_AOLFORM=w708.h344.p7.R1
Whenever I go to that site (in Windows) I get a message about needing an AOL Media Playback plugin. I'm at school and do not have admin rights on this machine, but it won't even play in Windows for me. I doubt you will get this to work with any distribution of Linux. I personally really like Fedora, though I don't exactly fall into the non-teckie category. Sometimes it is harder to get some things to work because Fedora strives to be fully open-source and avoid anything that might cause legal problems for RedHat. So, for instance, MP3 playback does not work out-of-the-box. Fedora is very easy to update, just run a simple "yum update" as root and let it work. You can even enable a nightly update automatically. Once you get things the way you want them, Fedora is very usable as a desktop system. Ubuntu seems to be a nice distro if you really want to change. Though a lot of stuff you might have learned for Fedora will be a little or completely different for Ubuntu. I have used SuSE before, and it is a lot like Fedora and fairly easy to setup. OpenSuSE, though, is still in Beta and looks to be completely open-source, like Fedora, so you probably will experience similar issues with it. I'm afraid with Linux (any distro), there will be some amount of tinkering, fixing, and troubleshooting needed and there will be some things that you cannot do because while most software supports Windows, a much smaller portion openly supports Linux. I hope that changes in the future and we will be able to do anything we could do in Windows in Linux. We've come a long way, but we still aren't quite there yet. Jonathan _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
