Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:38, John Summerfied wrote:
Today, I suggest that If you want stability and support, buy RHEL in the appropriate flavour If you want stability and cheap, download one of the EL clones such as TAO, CENTOS, WBEL (are there more?) If you want the latest and can bear the occasional breakage, use Fedora Core 4. If you don't care for stability and/or want to help refine things, Fedora Core 5 beta (maybe blend in some rawhide?) is for you.
But realistically, what people want is close-to-the latest plus
Realistically, what people want varies widely. Geeks aside, one thing they agree on is that it works, works and works.
some stuff that none of the above includes, like mplayer, xine, xmms with mp3 support, java, flash and the browser plugins for them, etc., so you want FC3 or FC4 with all current updates and a bunch of 3rd party packages. It can be done, but it's not necessarily pretty.
Those people are on the wrong distro:-)
SUSE has java, flash and at least some of the other stuff. Including madwifi drivers (needed for my laptop).
If we can't have all that stuff, then we really ought to have simple installers for it.