On 15/12/06 20:30 +0530, Rony wrote:
Devdas Bhagat wrote:
On 14/12/06 22:55 +0530, Rony wrote:
If you buy a Debian CD, you are paying for the media, not the software, so you are free to make copies. If you buy an RH Enterprise Linux CD, you cannot make copies and distribute the same.
You can make copies. You cannot redistribute because there is material copyrighted to RH which isn't distributable.
Make copies and install them on more machines?
Nothing stops you, _as long as you remove the RedHat copyrighted material_. You won't get support, of course. You can always use CentOS.
Could you tell me how many PCs you installed with Ubuntu 6.06 can play VCDs with proper sound? Mine does not even after installing codecs and
Mplayer works for me.
Are you able to play VCDs using Mplayer in Kubuntu 6.06?
I don't use Ubuntu. At the moment, I am a Gentoo user.
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I have no issues with hardware. Its the software and the way its packaged. I get frustrated due to the inconsistency of installation methods over same distro brands with different versions or across
Inconsistency _across_ versions? apt-get for Debian (clones), yum for the RH derivatives, Yast on SuSE, emerge on Gentoo...
different distros. In the case of Kubuntu 6.06 in the Acer 2428 laptop,
Across distros, yes. But again, why would you want to use so many distros in the first place. Choose a limited, small set to support and support only those?
Devdas Bhagat
all the hardware was detected and I can play open format video as well as audio files from the 'examples' folder. Its the VCDs that don't give any sound. Haven't tried mp3s or dvds. Even VLC player gives alternete clear and broken sounds when playing VCDs.
Hmmm, got any reasonably old non Sony VCDs? Can you try those? I have had issues with a few newer ones (the VCD itself was bad), and I don't trust Sony to do the right thing with media.
Devdas Bhagat