Fedora's way forward

Per Bjornsson perbj at sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 29 05:49:05 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:27 -0500, Rowan Kerr wrote:
> This is what I have been concerned about for a while now. It looks like 
> the next commercial version of Suse will have all kinds of media support 
> through RealPlayer instead of the FOSS-only HelixPlayer. What will the 
> next version of RHEL provide?

Likely RealPlayer, on a separate
proprietary-apps-not-really-in-the-distro disk, as they have done
before.

> Of course, shelling out for a RHEL license doesn't make sense to me, 
> because I don't need the support but I would be willing to purchase RPMs 
>   to give me legal media support on Fedora. (MP3, MPEG2/DVD, MPEG4).

Well, nothing prevents you from installing RealPlayer if that's what you
want, you can download it from Real...
/Per





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