Am Dienstag, 9. September 2008 23:13:27 schrieb James G. Sack (jim): > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > A friend of mine needs a distro for desktop use and multimedia - but no > > internet connection at the place, long story. > > So - Kubuntu is out of the race. > > Needed: DVD, mp3, all sorts of video formats, wine so perhaps photoshop > > works, gimp. > > All that out of the box from install media without online repositories. > > Hints? > > What about Mint? > > I think Mint has a good chance of providing out-of-box multimedia > capabilities you seek. Why don't you just try it? If I remember > correctly, the install iso is a live cd. > > Regards, > ..jim
Only thing keeping me from Mint right now is that there's no KDE release of 5.0 right now and I can't give anywhere as much support via phone when needed on Gnome since I haven't used Gnome in years (last version 1.4 in fact) and don't know most of the gui utils. Considering it nevertheless. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
