[Ambassadors] Educational spin ; The lack of quality video drivers is destroying Fedora.

[Avi Alkalay]

I wrote a tutorial (a basic copy-paste of some yum commands) on how to
quickly install all codecs etc in a Fedora box.

http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/06/fedora-post-installation-configurations.html

You can play DVDs and DivX and H.264 and MP4 a few minutes after installing
Fedora with this tutorial.

Regards,
Avi

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Satyajit Ranjeev <satyajit at nerdshack.com>wrote:

> hi,
>
> why don't we create an add on disk or something like that so normal
> users can download this too and install the codecs and drivers etc. Now
> i do realize it has to be unofficial but hows the idea?
>
> I am working in a school right now as a systems administrator, a
> programmer and a teacher. I want to install fedora and install the
> educational softwares too. I am hoping we could come up with a
> educational spin ( I realize there is something similar to that but as I
> see its concentrating towards mathematics) like the edubuntu.
>
> Satyajit
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 16:16 +0530, Shambo Bose wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:54 AM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)"
> > <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Zachary Oglesby wrote:
> >         > Sankarshan (¸™Í•°Í·£) wrote:
> >         >> Shambo Bose wrote:
> >         >
> >         >>> I have also faced some questions from fedora users in my
> >         locality that :
> >         >>> why mp3 music and some video formats cannot be played out
> >         of the box ?
> >         >> And how did you respond to such questions ?
> >         >
> >         > Tell them the importance of free software and have them read
> >         about it on
> >         > the GNU.org. Explain why patents are holding back software
> >         development
> >         > and help them to understand why Fedora holds freedom so
> >         high.
> >
> >
> >         Ah yes, I was more curious as to how Shambo responds to this
> >         questions -
> >         the notion being to figure out whether the end users are
> >         comprehending
> >         such concepts.
> >
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> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I am currently telling users either convert their videos and other
> > media format to ogg or I am recommending them to use the package which
> > Movie player recommends to use .
> >
> > Thank You.
> >
> > your sincerely,
> >
> > Shambo Bose
> >
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