[CS-FSLUG] Another SUSE complaint

Don Parris evangelinux at matheteuo.org
Sat Oct 15 17:15:27 CDT 2005


Nathan T. wrote:
> Hopefully you'll forgive me for being so careful, but I don't have a job 
> any more and therefore have to be much more careful how I spend my money.
> 
> Based on your signature I'm assuming you have a boxed set of SUSE 10.0 
> professional, I'm also going on to assume you have it installed 
> (probably using it right now) and that you haven't had to manually add 
> in libdvdcss or anything else for multimedia support manually. Can you 
> tell me if these work:
> - Playing DVD videos that have CSS "protection" with Kaffeine (not 
> RealPlayer).
> - Playing mp3's with noatun and juk (not with Amarok and absolutely not 
> with RealPlayer)
> - Playing proprietary video formats with Kaffeine (ie: wmf, avi, mov, 
> etc..., once again without using RealPlayer)
> - Changing the volume in AmaroK has a delay on my computer, ~1 second 
> with Xine, ~3-5 seconds with Helix, does this happen to you too? Does it 
> happen with JuK?
> 
> If it can do these things I'll be satisfied.
> 
> I'm sure I sound repetitive but SUSE pro isn't a small investment; SUSE 
> 10.0 is the first distribution in a long time that I've actually had an 
> interest in keeping and I would just like to make sure that if I do buy 
> a copy it won't be different from what I expected.
> 
> BTW. Haven't booted Windows for three days thanks to SUSE, the last time 
> I stayed out of Windows for so long was probably over a year ago.
> 
> 

That's how long it's been since I wiped Windows off my hard drive - over a 
year!  Woohoooooo!  The only problem I had is someone who recently tried to 
send me a Microsoft Publisher file.  I don't think they'll make that mistake 
again. ;-)

Don




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