Best Linux hard drive install?

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I think SuSe is pretty much just SuSe now, it may have started from Slackware way back when but it's so far from there that I don't think it's worth mentioning now.

To be honest, I wouldn't know as I've only been using Linux for 6 months and my experience is limited to Fedora Core and Ubuntu. I've never tried SuSE or Slackware - or if I did it was a long time ago. I've tried distros in the past but I don't remember which ones and I never stuck with them. I was just going by the 'Timeline' posted in that other thread.

 

[Nothinman]

To be honest, I wouldn't know as I've only been using Linux for 6 months and my experience is limited to Fedora Core and Ubuntu. I've never tried SuSE or Slackware - or if I did it was a long time ago. I've tried distros in the past but I don't remember which ones and I never stuck with them. I was just going by the 'Timeline' posted in that other thread.

Understandable, I was really surprised to see that SuSe was supposedly a fork of Slackware. I figured it was a RH fork since it used RPMs, but I've only installed it like once and that was probably 3+ years ago.

 

[RMSe17]

I am dissapointed with Ubuntu. I got the 6.06 final release candidate, did the normal default install, updated everything, and decided to play an mp3 file. Double click on the file, Totem movie player comes up, and shows an ugly big error window: Totem coul not play 'file:///media/dvdrecorder/Sounds/... You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins... So, I go to the help, and click online support, and can't really find anything there about any decoder plugins. So I google for Totem and mp3, and get a long line of code to type into the command line, that should fix things. I don't know, but for Ubuntu with their whole "human" thing, I expected better.

Trying to play mpo3 through the Music Player (also came with ubuntu) didn't accomplish anything either.

And this is version 6! I mean, come on, your everage "human" wants to hear music when he or she double clicks on an .mp3.

I am going to check SUSE next, lets see if they are more "human" 🙂

 

[batmang]

ubuntu or suse 10.1, or even mandrake 2006.

 

[batmang]

RMSe17, just install the needed codecs. there are tons of ubuntu guides that can help ya do it. your gonna have to learn somehow, no matter what distro you use. you should learn how to do things manually, its fun. 🙂

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper

 

[Nothinman]

And this is version 6! I mean, come on, your everage "human" wants to hear music when he or she double clicks on an .mp3.

Your average human also needs to pay for a MP3 decoder even though they don't realize it, so there's no way Ubuntu can legally distribute one without footing the bill themselves or making you pay for it.