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SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional Review at Mad Penguin

Posted by timothy on from the hey-it-does-come-with-mp3-playing-helix dept.

llywelynelysium writes "Mad Penguin has an excellent review of the upcoming SuSE 9.3 Professional release. The review is mostly positive, commenting on SUSE's improved speed, improved Gnome suppport, inclusion of Xen, and interestingly, the use of Firefox as the default browser. On the other hand, the review states that Novell has futher crippled the multimedia capabilities of their distribution by removing MP3 playback support. SUSE scores three stars in the end."

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  1. YOU Fixes MP3 Issues by mlmitton · · Score: 4, Informative
    According to the thread here:

    http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=1308 6

    YOU already has fixes to the kdemultimediapackage that corrects the MP3 problems. I don't know why they'd cripple MP3 support to begin with, but it's nice they fixed things so quickly.

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    1. Re:YOU Fixes MP3 Issues by eviltypeguy · · Score: 4, Informative

      More authoritative source:

      http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Ap r/0665.html

      The real thing is that they're not including MP3 support by default due to possible legal conflicts, namely software patents ;) They're available through you as multimedia packs and come with the warning that they should only be used if "legal in your jurisdiction" or something to that effect.