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sam:
--- Quote ---You've just installed a new Linux distribution on your computer and it won't play your MP3 files? All your songs are encoded in that format and you don't know what to do? Well, don't worry. This is a common problem in Linux and it has a simple solution.
Most Linux distributions made the choice not to include MP3 support by default, for instance: Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, Debian...etc.
A minority of distributions do support MP3 though, for instance: Mandriva, Mepis, PCLinuxOS...etc.
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read the article to find out why and how to fix the it... LINK
sam:
Still want to give linux a go? Fancy trying it from within Windows? Well DSL (Damn Small Linux) might have the answer. The whole point in Damn Small Linux is to get a bootable (with useful apps) version of linux as small as possilbe and infact it is damn small. For 50mb you can once again have an operating system. Another great thing is that you can boot this version of linux from within your windows installation. I wouldnt say you will get the best installation or linux experience from doing this, but it does give you a damn good start. Also for someone like me, this is great. When I use windows, linux is no more than a click on the desktop (or in my case a double click and my screen changes to my linux desktop, but thats a different story! :-) ).
Anyway more info on Damn Small Linux - http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
And this is the file you want to download: LINK
If you need help with running this just say.
sam:
Installing Packages...
This question has come up a few times and I thought I'd setup a thread where this can be discussed so everyone can easily access it.
The first and most important thing you need to remember is it isnt like windows, it can be, but in general it is slightly more invovled. If you can get RPMs if you can't then a bit more effort is required.
Here are a few good links, for now:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-08/newbies_01.html
http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/622/43/
davy51:
for a beginner i would recomend suse10.2
it very much like windows and i can access files from my windows os
very easy to download,install programs with yast
sam:
yep.. so many of the distributions now include easy to install programs.. progress! :D
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