Re: Installation
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:29:50 -0700
"Weaver" <weaver@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, September 11, 2012 6:40 pm, Celejar wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Just off the top of my head: libdvdcss2
Not a codec, but I understand your point. But there really aren't a
whole lot more, AFAIK.
Celejar
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