Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/18/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/04/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 05:31:30 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > +1 this seems deserving of answer. I like Fedora, use it all the time,
> > > and so rarely need a liveCD. And I am finding it harder to suggest
> > > Fedora to newbies. The LiveCD doesn't seem like that's going to
> > > change. I''m simply not suggesting any Linux since I'm only familiar
> > > with Fedora. The LiveCD certainly has a cool factor. But in the
> > > hypothetical scenario of a perfect LiveCD, what are the benefits? What
> > > are the hypothetical use cases of said perfect Live Fedora?
> >
> > No software is perfect, and surprise you can use yum from the LiveCD to add
> > more software.
> >
> > There are plenty of usage cases outside the "I want to listen to mp3s" crowd.
> >
>
> Very common workflows (or playflows) include the following:
>
> 1) Web browsing: the viewing of HTML pages

Will only be able to view non media rich pages

> 2) Email: the downloading, display, and sending of electronic mail

Should work, assuming no wifi

> 3) Chatting: communicating with other humans via one (or more) or the
> following chat protocols: yahoo, msn, icq

Should work, assuming no wifi

> 4) Listening to audio: the playback of mp3 files

Won't work

> 5) Watching video: the playback of mpg, avi, and wmv files

Won't work, except for .ogg

> 6) Viewing pictures: the display of jpeg files

Should work

> 7) Word Processing: creating, editing, and display of text documents

Should work, sans abilty to embed media files

> in txt, rtf, and doc formats
> 8) Spreadsheet: creating, editing, and display of spreadsheets in excel format

Should work, but minus some upstream functionality

> I'm sure there's more that I missed. But these are examples of the
> most basic functions that any computer (and operating system) are
> expected to perform. If an OS cannot do any of these, then it is not
> adequate for general use. Fedora is thus bound by law to be inadequate
> for general use out of the box. That is easily fixed by those in the
> know, but not by a passer-by who downloads the distro (or LiveCD) and
> plays around with it.
>
> Again I ask: to whom is the official LiveCD aimed at? I do not think
> that Redhat can (legally) produce a LiveCD suitable for the general
> public. Rather, this is better left to the community, who are not
> bound by such restrictive laws, and can legally create and distribute
> such a disk. The only question for Redhat is should Redhat allow the
> community to use the Fedora name on the disk.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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