Re: Installation
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:51:39 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:17 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > Since Squeeze I think that Debian has removed itself from this market. The
> > main repository and kernel contain only FLOSS software. I.e. many drivers
> > are missing and have to be separately installed. This is beyond a total
> > newbie, and I think could not be rendered easily attainable by attaching a
> > set of instructions. So sadly, I have come to the conclusion that I must
> > recommend e.g. Linux Mint if any newbie who wishes to self-install were to
> > ask me for my opinion.
>
> A serious issue for all Linux distros are codecs. We're living in the
> media age, consumer need codecs. http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
> Last time (02 Sep 2012) I tried to upgrade my AV Linux (Debian stable),
> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg should be automatically removed. I didn't notice a
> replacement that should be installed. Conflicts caused by codecs (just
> one issue) are an issue for most distros I know.
? I use standard A/V packages (Mplayer and VLC) from Stable (with some
Backports stuff), and never have any codec issues at all.
What codecs would a typical user encounter that aren't available in
Debian?
Celejar
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