for rpm's of codecs etc, that are hard to find or often don't appear on cd's (for legal reasons) try here
ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/cooker/ you will notice there is a amd64 directory ....only a few odds and ends but its growing but the alpha directory has lots of codecs in there too among other things. PLF is one of the reasons I like Mandrake and the site works with the urpmi package manager. Mandrakes first try at a amd64 distribution wasn't too flash hope Mandrake 10 Official amd64 doesnt stuff up this time or SuSe will own the amd64 market for easy installs. PS: you might have to use the source rpm's with suse because I have tried binary SuSe rpm's, and found they don't work well in Mandrake but rebuilding ( rpm --rebuild package_name.src.rpm ) then the SuSe source rpm's in Mandrake work a treat. On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 12:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:37:18AM +1000, James Gray wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I've been a Debian "die hard" for about 5 years (that will remain for > > servers), and a RedHat defector before that. Last week my > > all-singing-all-dancing Athlon64 system arrives with Asus K8V SE Deluxe > > mother board. I was "given" a copy of Suse 9.1 Pro by my boss and asked to > > evaluate it. > > > > Having done the same thing yesterday (even from Debian to Suse), my major > problem with Suse 9.1 is that several of the key apps (for me) have been > monumentally dumbed down - specifically Xine and other tools which make > use of DSS and various video codecs for watching DVD's etc. > > At least there are websites for Fedora 2 which enable you to add their > repositories to 'yum' (software installation tool) - from there, you can > at least then install the various updates which aren't so limited. > I haven't managed to find one for Suse yet :-( > > Glen > > -- > ======================================================================== > Glen Lewis Sydney, Australia > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards Richard Neal *********************************************************************** He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it. -- The Life and Times of Corporal Nobbs (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms) *********************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
