> > > Can anyone give me advice on how to get radio 3, CDs, DVDs etc. playing
> > > in Etch?
> >
> > Have you tried PCLinuxOS? http://www.pclinuxos.com/
>
> Yes. It was one of the earliest I tried. It didn't work OOTB and it has
very
> small repositories.
When did you try it? A new version (2007-TR4) has come out _very_ recently but
even TR3 seemed OK for what I was using it for.
All the mainstream stuff seemed to be in the default repositories. It did seem
short on multi-monitor/wireshark/kdevelop type stuff but then again its aimed
at the 90% of home users who just surf the web etc.
> > I have all the multimedia stuff working on Kubuntu 7.07 but had to install
> > the extras manually
>
> This is probably part of the problem. I have not used my own box as a
> multimedia centre, so don't really know what to install. If something
> complains that it can't find something I install whatever it is that it
can't
> find. But when I once got BBC playing it was appallingly jerky (as it was
> under PCLinuxOS :-( ) and I couldn't sort it out. This has been going on
> for weeks, and he is getting very fed-up. :-((
>
> I couldn't trouble you for a list of the extras, could I?
I just followed the helpfull instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
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Tony Smith
Software Development Engineer
TSEU Group
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