[Leaplist] media computer

[Danny W. Burdick]

Take a look at mint or sidux....think you'll be amazed....



Mr. Brunkow wrote:
> In the past I have used a combination of Debian and CentOS for media 
> computers.  I am getting ready to rebuild one of my computers that has 
> a bad HDD in it.  As I have not messed with either distro in a very 
> long time (been playing around with Sabayon 
> http://www.sabayonlinux.org) but DO NOT want to use that as my media 
> computer.  It is to much bleeding edge and requires more upkeep then I 
> want to put into a media box.
>
> I will be playing all kinds of media from DVDs to movies I have made 
> into AVI format to Dvix videos, as well as MP3 and other sound file 
> types.  I know the RH line of distros does not by default have access 
> to many of the "3rd party" codecs required for this type of endeavor, 
> but have they blocked them completely and if not how hard/easy is it 
> to gain access to all of those codecs that will be required to play my 
> kids DVDs and what not?
>
> Same question for Debian.  If I remember correctly Debian has access 
> to everything, but new repositories need to be added to the 
> sources.list for apt to find and install them.  I no longer have an 
> accurate list of repositories for either CentOS, or Debian.  Are their 
> members of the leap list that will be at the meeting tomorrow that 
> will have this information for aid in getting my media rig up and 
> running?
>
> Many thanks.
>