[Ham-Linux] Red hat based linux

[Jonathan Thawley, KC8CPW]

So with the MP3 licensing issue... This brings up a major question... How is it that in ubuntu the MP3 decoder is readily available from their program updater... The name of it slips me at the moment... Basically its redhat's version of yum.

Jonathan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike W <mikew at crucis.net>

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:15:08 
To: <kc8cpw at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ham-Linux] Red hat based linux


Whatever issues you have with Centos, you'll have with Fedora.  The core
code comes from the same source---Red Hat.

Mike - W0TMW

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"Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee."
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Jonathan Thawley, KC8CPW wrote:
> My issue with CentOS is that I've yet to figure out what I have to do to get MP3's and windows media files to play! Drives me nuts! Lol
>
> Any ideas on solving that problem?
>
> Right now I'm test driving ubuntu its ok but I don't know all the commands and stuff like I know them on redhat. But that was one thing that impressed me was that it play MP3s and windows media files including videos right out of the box.
>
> Jonathan
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Mike W
> To: Jonathan D Thawley
> Subject: Re: [Ham-Linux] Red hat based linux
> Sent: Mar 11, 2009 5:52 PM
>
> I have both Fedora and Centos.  Centos is a copy of Red Hat's Enterprise
> Linux.
>
> I would suggest you use Centos. Fedora is cutting edge and the version
> turnover is quick.  If you like upgrading every three months and working
> through all the upgrade issues that arise due to new versions of glibc
> and perl and etc., then go with Fedora.  Fedora only supports the
> current and last version so if you don't upgrade your version of Fedora
> is unsupported in about six months.
>
> My $0.02.
>
> Mike - W0TMW
>
> --
>
> "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee."
>   -- William Kershner
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan Thawley, KC8CPW wrote:
>   
>> I'm looking at running redhat based linux. I have used redhat itself back in the day. And have also used CentOS everysince tao linux disappeared from production.
>> I have tried fedora back when it first came out and I wasn't impressed at all.. Has it come along way since then?
>>
>> My question is this I'm going to be running a P4 2.66 GHz, 2GB ram, 160 GB hd for my system.
>>
>> What flavors would you recommend for desktop/server and/or ham radio related use?
>>
>> I'm looking at running a TNOS system on this computer as well for packet. Ideas, suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advanced,
>>
>> Jonathan
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