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Topic: media player on dsl0.9.0, stroke of genious

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mikshaw

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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,17:41

audio/video CDs and DVDs are played directly rather than mounted, so that's probably why you'd get errors.

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Posted: Dec. 29 2004,12:35

Maybe it's just me but.... isn't firefox with it's 10Mb totally and completely against DSL's policy of being a damn light/damn small/damn fast/damn usefull/nearly complete/nearly perfect linux distro? I feel the loss of xmms (and what else?) is greater than the gain of a (for this distro) mammoth browser with functions I'm sure I won't use in a million years.

10Mb of a 50MB distro. I'd call that a mammoth. That's one fifth (1/5) or twenty (20) percent of the entire distro! Surely there is more usefull stuff around (like xmms!!!) that deserves a place in the distro (xmms!!!!)

To be honest, I've tried Fire on my winbox and removed it 10 minutes after installation. No, I don't like it at all. Yes, I hate being stuck with MS and Netscrape's products. Yes, I don't like Mo* and other *zilla derived browsers either. I thought DSL's browser was refreshing: basic, fast and better at representing some websites than all of the other competitors to MS and Netscrape's stuff.

So, please, DSL-team, gives us back our xmms/scyp/whatever else you have thrown out. Firefox is the worst thing that could have happened to the distro that has started to get me to experiment with and learn about linux (at least in my eyes).

PS: Yes, I know: I can download xmms. I don't want to download it. I want it installed. Like Scype. Why not have Firefox as a download?

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cbagger01

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Posted: Dec. 30 2004,05:38

xmms is back as part of the basic livecd in version 0.9.1

This is a special version of Firefox so it probably takes up less than the ~10MB that the old Firefox 0.8 extension used.

If you really don't want Firefox, you can either go back to version 0.8.4 or you can remaster 0.9.1 yourself to remove Firefox.

Most people here seem to approve of the Firefox addition and a full-featured web browser is almost a necessity these days.

John

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Posted: Dec. 30 2004,06:42

Not only do you have XMMS, but you have a choice of 3 browsers, Links, Dillo, and FireFox. Yes, Links-Hacked is gone, but you still have a text version of Links and the exact same Dillo. The FireFox version in DSL is only 6MB, Links-Hacked compressed was nearly 3MB with dependencies. A hell of a lot of time was spent getting it all to fit and work, probably 50 hours total between Kent, Robert and myself.

It boils down to two choices...

Choice 1:
XMMS
Scite
Links-Hacked
Dillo

Choice 2:
XMMS
Beaver
Links (text mode)
Dillo
FireFox

Most would say that choice 2 is for the collective greater good.
(yet, I know that no matter what choices we make someone will be unhappy)

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