Views from an Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Fedora migrator

[Stephen Gordon]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:50 AM, John Moniz <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 10/20/2012 04:39 AM, Ben Walton wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Lennart Sorensen
>> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I also know I will never go back to an RPM based distribution after
>>> having used Debian.  RPM is just way too painful to make packages for
>>> (and I find the rpm/yum interface too clumsy too).  It was a vast
>>> improvement over slackware's patchetic concept of a package, but that
>>> was a long time ago.
>>
>> I've never understood why people find making RPM's difficult in the
>> least.  I've always found it quite easy to whip up an RPM for anything
>> I've needed (which over time grew a large collection).  I'd be
>> interested to hear why you found it difficult though...
>>
>> FWIW, I happily use both RHEL and Debian and find that they both have
>> their place.  If you're an enterprise and can afford RHEL (instead of
>> CentOS), the RHN is definitely a good value add proposition when
>> looking after a lot of systems.  Although I use Ubuntu on the desktop,
>> I cringe when I hear of its use on servers...they've rushed too many
>> half baked things into LTS releases that you're essentially stuck
>> with.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Ben
>
>
> How easy is it to get all of the pertinent multimedia codecs installed on
> Fedora (I'd be interested in an answer for Debian also)? The main reason I
> use Ubuntu and have installed it on several family and friends' PCs is the
> ease with which I got multimedia working. I've often given up on it after
> installing Fedora.
>
> I really miss RH7.3 :-(
>
> John.

In Fedora you still have to add an external repository (rpmfusion) to
install the relevant non-free codec package for your media player,
which I assume is the difficulty that you are referring to. I usually
direct people to fedorafaq.org or fedorasolved.org for instructions.

Steve
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