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New Releases for Debian and SUSE

Posted by timothy on from the don't-move-along-something-to-see dept.

linuxbeta writes "With the recent SUSE LINUX 9.3 Live DVD ISO released, we get a sneak peek. (screenshots) of this much anticipated OS update. Cool updates in 9.3 includes Firefox 1.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Gimp 2.2, Beagle. Xen, VoIP client, and more." And while Debian's Sarge isn't here yet (give Branden Robinson a chance to find his plush new office!), wrochal points out that the fifth update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 ("Woody" ) has arrived. 3.0 (r5) "mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems." Also, four packages were removed, three for license violations.

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  1. Grr. by Sexy+Bern · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's "peek", not "peak", ffs.

  2. Multimedia by spineboy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Getting multimedia to work with Suse is still somewhat of a pain. Yes mplayer does a fairly good job, but there are still tons of files/formats that just don't play right off the bat. I'm a fairly advanced user and have been using Linux for six years now. I actually bought COdeweavers and have installed mplayer. I still get plenty of problems with various formats, but eventually get it to play.

    This strategy will not "draw" in the crowds - most people give up before tinkering with the system. It has to work smoothly right out of the install (mostly).

    I generally think Suse is one of the most polished distros out there, but it still has a way to go with multimedia, to get it to appeal to joe-computer user and Grandma who are scared of "breaking" things on the computer.

    Linux is on the cusp from going from "hacker" OS to main-stream, but still has some catching up to Windows in certain things - mainly multimedia. Yes I know there are plenty of programs that work great - but the average user, I think, would not have the expertise to get it to work easily right off the DVD.

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    1. Re:Multimedia by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Great another Gentoo zealot showing us Gentoo commands.

      Survey says?!? BZZZZT
      I am, buy far and large, NOT a "Gentoo zealot". It just happens to be the distro of MY choice. I usually reccomend MDK or SuSE to people.

      it's really freaking easy to run "apt-get install MPlayer"?

      Can't the same be said for
      1. urpmi mplayer
      2. emerge xine-ui
      3. apt-get install xine

      etc.....
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  3. 1+1=2 by CygnusXII · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So we have the recent crying session, over ubuntu and kubuntu being harmful to debian,when actually it comes to be a concern over "Release" dates and Press. Smells fishy to me.

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