What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of ...

[Maynard Kuona]

The xmms-mp3 plug-in should work nicely though. Can also get it at
xmms.org, or prebuilt replacement xmms packages. I think since most of
us download Winamp anyway under Windows, xmms should not be a problem.

The Alsa 'problem' should sort of go away with kernel 2.6 as I hear.
That will now be in the kernel. Its always a hassle to get Alsa to work
properly..

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Randall J. Parr
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:32 PM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: What are consequences of "merger necessitates removal of
...

Emmanuel Seyman wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:48:43PM +0200, Maynard Kuona wrote:
>  
>
>>am no longer encoding my cds into mp3, but I have so many mp3's, it is
a
>>hassle to to this nicely with Redhat. How much does the license cost.
Is
>>it not $50,000 for the perpetual license.
>>    
>>
>
>If the issue is mp3 support, you can just hop over to freshrpms.net
>and get it there.
>  
>

No I can't. That is, in fact, my point. Most of the freshrpms.net stuff 
requires ALSA, which requires kernel modules, which means I can no 
longer "up2date" that system without breaking the sound, etc., etc.

I have tried, repeatedly to use freshrpms.net stuff but have constantly 
run into the above problems and/or conflicts with other stuff from other

repositories.  Yes, I can rebuild them or build them from source but the

whirlpools seems to just spin faster then.

On the other hand, Fedora, until now, has allowed me to very quickly and

easily extend my standard Red Hat 7, 8, and 9 servers/workstations while

encounter few if any of these problems. It has really, really been nice.

But now it ends and I am thrown back into the whirlpool.

It has been very, very nice install Fedora yum/apt and be able to tell 
my customers, my sister, my wife, "Just do ..." and presto, changeo, you

can play your MP3's or watch your DVD's. They really don't do so well 
when I pass on to them the typical answer from these lists of "just 
install all this stuff from freshrpms, reconfigure your modules.conf, 
maybe rebuild your kernel, and it 'just works', Yeah, right"


R.Parr, RHCE
Temporal Arts


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