--- Jonathan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/29/05, Josh Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Toshio Kuratomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Yeah, moviefone.com is not out-of-the-box stuff in windows or linux. In windows, it's easier for me to get it to work. I know.. better vendor support blah blah blah. Heck, I had to install an activeX plugin to use it in FireFox on Windows. (Just had to try it, will be removing it soon.) Good point about open source. Although I'm not an OSS extremist by any means, I tend to gravitate to open source for various reasons. So distro's I'm likely to pick are open source. As such will tend to require more effort for some things to work. I am trying to get a linux desktop that I can use for more professional things and that my family can use as non-techies. (I had to smile a couple weeks ago that the kids showed my wife how to shutdown Fedora.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
