[oclug] Mandrake files for bankruptcy protection.

[Ben Reser]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Shad Young wrote:
> This is a very odd piece of software. I fail to understand any benefit
> it may provide, except for a few people who need the one or two plug-ins
> not yet supported by Linux. Missing from the base install is the
> Quicktime Plug-in... (sure its supported, but not part of their
> installer and is fiddly to get working properly (never mind the abysmal
> frame rate)

Actually Quicktime is supported just fine...  Perhaps you tried a
previous version which didn't work nearly as well?  At any rate here's a
rather large screenshot, but you'll note there is a quicktime movie
playing embeded in Galeon...
http://ben.reser.org/vitals/occipital_snapshot6.png

> Who needs WMP 6.4? That is 3 years out of date and does not support
> modern codecs.

I haven't run into anything it won't play yet.  It does have the ability
to update it's codecs just like pretty much all of the players do.

At any rate I didn't mention Crossover to suggest it was good software,
though I do like it.  It was simply an example of inexplicable thinking
regarding the fonts package...

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