Fedora Core 9

[Superman3332001]

I decided to try Fedora Core 9 and found it to be a big disappointment. I found out in order to play my DVD's I would have to pay for codecs. As well I couldn't find yum on there it told me it was installed but I looked under system ---> Administration and as well under my applications -->system tools and could find it. I thought I would just share what I found out with everyone. Has anyone else found around to fixing any of this. Thanks as always in advance your help is always appreciated.

superman3332001

[linuxguru]

Downloaded Fedora 9 but haven't tried it yet. Fedora 8 is on one hard drive and works well.
I suspect all you need is to set up the livna repository. Look at the link below or go to the Fedora forums for info.

http://hacktux.com/fedora/codecs

[Superman3332001]

Downloaded Fedora 9 but haven't tried it yet. Fedora 8 is on one hard drive and works well.
I suspect all you need is to set up the livna repository. Look at the link below or go to the Fedora forums for info.

http://hacktux.com/fedora/codecs

Thank you so much. You live up to your name. Its all fixed.

[cdnLilWolf]

Actually, if you want to give Fedora a serious try, add this repository to your list.

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/

Fedora has always touted itself as a Free (as in free of license issues as well as in free beer) distribution. That means that proprietary codecs are never included with the distribution (and they say as much).

Having said that, both the Livna, ATrpms and Freshrpms repositories are popular amongst those who use Fedora.

On a side note, I stuck with Fedora 8 as it runs fine for me and #9 had nothing to offer me in terms of switching.

[DazedNConfuzed]

I haven't found enough reason to switch to FC9 either. FC8 fits my requirements quite well.

[ssadams]

i tied fedora and didnt like it at all. I had to download all sorts of codecs and programs to make it funtional the way a destop OS should be. I have been using Unix and then linux for 30/20 years and I am at the point where a Desktop OS must do everything I want "strait from the box" so for me fedora gets a 4 out of 10. now the paid verion of Redhat is a totally different animal, and works great

[OmniTom]

I installed Fedora -9 -64-bit and had some problems getting multimedia running as I tried installing totem-xine with all the codecs but it still tried running totam-gstreamer without codecs. Anyways instead of spending days setting it up I took the easy way and used this which worked really well.
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=171660&highlight=install+script

Think Ubuntu has a edge here but I wanted a 64bit system and Ubuntu-64 is a more pure 64-bit system so probably would be harder managing 64-bit. Anyways after using this script things are working now and I am much more happy with Fedora-9-64bit now.

Running Red Hat paid is what I would really like but notta on the money thing as of now.

[cdnLilWolf]

i tied fedora and didnt like it at all. I had to download all sorts of codecs and programs to make it funtional the way a destop OS should be. I have been using Unix and then linux for 30/20 years and I am at the point where a Desktop OS must do everything I want "strait from the box" so for me fedora gets a 4 out of 10. now the paid verion of Redhat is a totally different animal, and works great

Your second sentence seems to ignore what the people at Fedora have stated all along. Proprietary codecs are not included because they do not conform to the GPL (regardless of version). Therefore they can not legally include them in a "Free" (as in beer or freedom) distribution.

Having used Unix or Linux for as long as you have, you should know this. You should also know that most distros are about community and will never do everything anybody could want out of the box. That sounds a bit like blue sky to me.

If you simply don't like Fedora or any other distro, that's fine, just don't misrepresent it for what it is. They never said that the codecs in question are included or that it could play certain store bought DVD movies from the start (or MP3's for that matter).

[DazedNConfuzed]

Your second sentence seems to ignore what the people at Fedora have stated all along. Proprietary codecs are not included because they do not conform to the GPL (regardless of version). Therefore they can not legally include them in a "Free" (as in beer or freedom) distribution.

Having used Unix or Linux for as long as you have, you should know this. You should also know that most distros are about community and will never do everything anybody could want out of the box. That sounds a bit like blue sky to me.

If you simply don't like Fedora or any other distro, that's fine, just don't misrepresent it for what it is. They never said that the codecs in question are included or that it could play certain store bought DVD movies from the start (or MP3's for that matter).


so true.