STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) schrieb:
As you said, "It is what it is" and that seems to apply to the
proprietary codecs also. The mplayer developers have done a marvelous
job integrating the windows codecs. Searching out this information
is non-trivial (without some luck) and difficult for the uninitiated.
This mailing list has a pretty good cross section of current Fedora users
and has some extremely intelligent and knowledgeable people on it.
It may well be that since software installation does and should require
some sort of administrative account (eg. root) and putting the root
account in the hands of the uneducated can be a terrible thing, a
different model is needed to further encroach upon Windows.
There is nothing wrong with that and a big advantage at a school.
Windows boxes usually rot away within minutes, because everybody can
install anything wherever they want, they do not need to be
root/administrator to do that. And that's wrong.
I even would advocate running Windows only on VMWare in institutions
like that.
Regards
Markus Huber
