My Concern
Posted Aug 31, 2006 19:19 UTC (Thu) by
oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to:
My Concern by pbardet
Parent article:
Fedora Core to drop openmotif
> With a Linux distro that removes components one after the other, you
> leave people with more hunting to do to be able to get mp3 working,
> GUI for older programs, PDF reader within web browser...
Maybe those kind of people[1] are not the main customers for RedHat?
I would image them to be more comfortable with something like Linspire
which according to Wikipedia:
"includes proprietary software on its installation CD, such as Adobe
Reader, proprietary drivers and support for MP3, DVD, QuickTime, Sun
Java, Adobe Flash, Real Media, Windows Media."
[1] RHEL customers probably build their own distro on top of RedHat
SW and normal Fedora users hopefully are competant enough to write
a script to automate installing whatever extra stuff they want.
I've myself haven't used RedHat since 1996 because it never had enough
(free) software for me and SUSE has been removing stuff I use in each
release, so I'm moving away from that too...
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