[ltp] [offtopic] how to use windows?

[Igor V. Rafienko]

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on Jun 9, 2007, 16:06, Jan Kundr=E1t wrote:

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>> Asking microsoft to supply codecs for every digital format "out of the=
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>> box" is akin to asking Linus Torvalds (or Andrew Morton, or whoever the=
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>> maintainer of the relevant kernel tree is) to do the same.
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> Nope, it's like asking your favorite distribution to install it for you.


=2E.. and none of the distributions out there actually do that (=3D=3D supp=
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codecs for *every* digital format out of the box). Windows came with=20
*some* codecs, just not the ones required to play that particular Pink=20
Floyd DVD.

In hindsight, you are right -- it is more fair to compare Windows XP to a=
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linux distribution, rather than the linux kernel: Microsoft supplies an=20
operating system and some additional software packages. However, I fail to=
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see how asking for a third-party software that they have no control over=20
to be installed out of the box is even remotely reasonable.


> Dunno about yours, but my favorite distribution provides that.


No it does not. It does not provide codecs for *every* digital format "out=
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of the box".

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> You don't install Linux kernel, you install a distribution. You don't=20
> install Windows kernel alone, either, you install that "Windows" thingy.


Windows "thingy"? :)

There will always be useful software packages outside the scope of a=20
distribution (a couple of days back I tried to find rlfe; my distribution=
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did not supply it; neither did RHEL. I ended up downloading the source=20
from a debian archive and compiling it "outside" the package manager). MS=
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made a different choice regarding the scope of the software they support=20
out of the box. Watching that Pink Floyd DVD requires software which needs=
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to be additionally installed -- this happens regardless of whether one=20
rolls out windows or linux. The only difference is that a number of (all?)=
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linux distros have a package manager that makes the task easier. And some=
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of the distros out there have an installation medium (e.g. a set of=20
liveCDs) that already has such software included, so that one can watch=20
Pink Floyd DVDs while a gazillion of packages is being copied/downloaded.

The *only* real difference here is the specific choice of packages.





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