I don't think it's the first, I believe Linspire has been including legal MP3 playback for a while. Still, it's great.
Although MP3 has been possible legally on SUSE out of the box using either RealPlayer or Helix Banshee. On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:26 +0200, Clayton wrote: > > > > As highlights, we'd like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME > > > > 2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via > > > > gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily > > > > optimised and improved package > > > > > > Does this make openSUSE the _first_ Linux distribution to provide > > > legal MP3 decoding as an integral part of the distribution? (or did I > > > miss something?) If so, is this being promoted as a big deal? I > > > think it probably should be. > > [snip] > > > BTW was there an answer to the question of the legality of MP3s or are > > we going w/ Novel's licensure of Realplayer? > > Well... I think this was an answer of sorts.... the announcement > stated that openSUSE 10.3 comes with the Fluendo MP3 decoder. This is > the legal MP3 decoder option for Linux. You can buy it from > Fluendo... but the announcement says it's included in 10.3. This is a > big deal - to moe anyway. It wasn't really hyped... at least not > anywhere I've seen outside of the email announcement. > > C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
