Just as a clarification, I'm sure that SUSE comes with a *lot* more
stuff than MEPIS. When you pay for SUSE, it's my understanding that
they pay some of the developers for the more interesting codecs.
MEPIS takes a slightly different approach for the software they provide.
Some distos will only provide the free goodies (free as in beer and
freedom) while MEPIS will provide the additional goodies (free as in
beer but not necessarily freedom) such as Real Player, Flash plugin,
some of the video codecs, etc.
I still need to install the MP3 codec and the M$ Windows media codecs,
if I'm not mistaken. It just lessens my work load by a bit.
Kevin Cully
CULLY Technologies, LLC
Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006!
http://foxforward.net
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
> I'm torn between SuSE, which comes with lotsa stuff installed (like
> MEPIS - codecs, drivers, browser plugins, etc.), but also has an icky
> config tool that, after using it for a year, I just couldn't stand, and
> FC, which I like a lot, in terms of look and style, but that requires
> too much geek-time to deal with.
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