On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Linux Canuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Install vlc. It works better anyway.
thanks roy. i'll give this a try.
> Mandriva and any RPM based distro is
> prone to breakage. RPMs do not trace dependencies as well as Debs. We can
> argue that point but that is my experience and that of many people. It is
> just a question of time before things start to break and not work on any RPM
> based distro IMI. Count yourself lucky that you got this far. As long as you
> are into re-installing you might want to consider switching to a Debian
> based distro such as Ubuntu, Debian, MEPIS or any one of the others.
>
well, this will give me a little more incentive to try ubuntu which
i've been interested in trying for some time now.
> If you are okay with RPMs and like Mandriva, you might want to install
> Mandriva One 2008. I have used it and it works better than 2007. Just be
> prepared for a long installation. Mine took 2 and a half hours. Ubuntu
> installs in less than half an hour on the same system.
wow! did these 2 distros install the same packages or did mandriva
install more software, which would account for the time discrepancy?
when i had this problem, and decided to finally do a re-install, i did
consider mandriva 2008, but realized that it too is an old version now
and thought that 2009 would be coming out soon. so i decided to just
do the install of 2007 and download 2009 after it comes out rather
than spend the time doing 2 downloads.
> .......
>
> Just a thought. The easiest solution is to try vlc.
>
> Roy
>
thanks again for the response, it gives me a direction and is much appreciated.
j
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