[Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Making installation easy (XFCE as third official desktop?)

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Oct 9 18:37:47 UTC 2006


Luke Satin wrote:
> Next, there should be some kind of checkboxes that will allow you to 
> install MP3,Flash,Sun Java,XVID/DIVX support and 3D accelerated 
> NVIDIA/ATI drivers directly. During the installation or after the 
> first-boot, but it should be automatic and simple. 

No can (or will) do.

Not free software, and in many cases, not distributable.  Further, even 
linking to some patent-infringing bits (mp3, xvid, etc)... is not legal 
(e.g. contributory infringement).

About the best we can do, is already on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/

-- Rex




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