[Nottingham] What distro?

[Simon]

On 23/05/06, Jim <JimTheBad at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 20:44, Paul Mellors wrote:
> > Quite correct, it doesn't but how hard is it to type
> >
> > sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-mad [i think there the correct plugins]
>
> If you're a Linux newbie... very hard indeed!
>
> That's pretty much what I was getting at: it's easy for one of us to sort
> something like this out, but for a Linux newbie, he's going to get very cross
> trying to work it out and will inevitably go back to Windows.
>
> So it really needs to be either a distro with mp3 support out-of-the-box or
> one where mp3 support can be added in a newbie-friendly way.
>
> Jim

How about Linspire? It's built on Debian, and has the Click 'n' Run
tool for easily adding new programs and tools. Linspire also has MP3
playback and an optional legal DVD playback tool.

Simon