SuSE 9.1 Personal not good for multimedia?

[Jason Shein]

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On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 20:27, Chris Aitken wrote:
> I am a day away from installing SuSE Personal 9.1 (epressly for 
> multitrack sound recording) and then I came across this warning at 
> http://www.madpenguin.org/Article1226.html. This review advises that 
> SuSE 9.1 Personal is good for everyone but me:
> 
> I am a bit concerned with the multimedia capabilities of this distro 
> compared to other multimedia-rich distros like Mandrake Linux. Although 
> I admit I'm completely ignorant of the laws governing or prohibiting the 
> distribution of a working DVD player in Linux, I do think that there 
> /has/ to be a way to make this work. There /is/ software available that 
> can play DVD media on Linux, Windows, Mac, etc.. so why isn't there a 
> legal way to make this work? Is it regions? If so, isn't there a way to 
> make the end user select their region the first time the Xine engine is 
> called upon to play a DVD? I'm not a programmer, but it seems this would 
> be possible. If this distro was loaded with multimedia capabilities, I 
> think it would round it out very well, to the extent that it would be 
> worth more than the $29.95 price tag in my opinion.
> 
> The bottom line is this: If you are new to Linux and are interested in 
> learning just enough to get your feet wet, and don't plan on getting 
> under the hood for quite some time, this distribution might be for you. 
> The only concern you should have is multimedia support, which SUSE 
> <http://www.suse.com> will hopefully address as soon as possible. Other 
> than that, this is a very capable desktop that you should find worthy of 
> the price tag... and to be absolutely honest with you, a great 
> introduction to Linux. There aren't that many distributions I would 
> recommend to extremely green Linux users, but SUSE <http://www.suse.com> 
> is one of them.
> 
> Chris
> 
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