[linux] Re: [Herefordshire] Hello,I'm new here

[David Shorthouse]

Fedora is a very good distro to start using.

I found it easy to install & setup but I like Peter had issues installing
other software.

I found that KDE was the nicer interface/desktop to use in regards to the
media player "Kaffiene Player" is a good one that I use. You Will also need
the latest version of xine
http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/ this has links for downloading the files &
what extra files you need. It took me a week to work out how to get it to
play videos so don't just install them/compile them & if it doesn't work
give up. The satisfaction you get when it does work is greeeeat...

As you will know DVDs are encrypted using macro vision encryption legally
there is one player that you can buy Power DVD for Linux which has
encryption but if you look at  that website It will tell you to download a
plug-in to run DVDs.

I hope this helps.

Oh hello all sorry missed the last meeting I had a really bad day at work &
I needed to get some gaming time in.

I am hoping I will get to the next one as I would like to make some
suggestions on driving people to the website. Something I have found I am
not the only person who has problems with installing VNC Apache PHP. These
are all things that people have done a search on & found my site. I get
around 20 hits on my Linux page a week. As allot of people are looking for
the fix. :)

If anyone is interested I have
http://www.kungfu.dyndns.org/Red_Hat_The_Complete_Reference_Enterprise_Linux
_and_Fedora_Edition.zip a good read if you like reading manuals on your pc.

I will hopefully see you all at the next meeting..

All the best

David Shorthouse
Email mailto:linux at kungfu.globalnet.co.uk
Web  http://www.kungfu.dyndns.org/Linux/linux.html




-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Mark
Broadbent
Sent: 27 October 2004 9:15 PM
To: Peter Linnell; Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: [linux] Re: [Herefordshire] Hello,I'm new here


Hi Peter,

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 20:43, Peter Linnell wrote:
> Now have Fedora Core1 installed; stand back in awe....so far its taken
> me allday to find out its mp3 and dvd players are disabled by yankee
> paranoia; any one out there got media for mplayer and xmms for mp3?

http://freshrpms.net/ is an excellent source of packages (including DVD
player and mp3 decoders).

Simply use the following command (as root):

# rpm -ivh \
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/1/yum/yum-2.0.7-2.fc.fr.
noarch.rpm

Then:

# yum -y update

And your Fedora installation will be up-to speed in no time!  Just make
sure you don't do it over dial-up, it'll take hours.

However Core 1 has officially been declared as legacy now, you'd be
better starting with Core 2 or Core 3 (C3 is out on 8th Nov).

Thanks
Mark



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