Hello.
Im new on Centos I recently installed Centos 8 and i have the following problem with my browser
I cant play media on the browser.
for example i cant play. https://twitter.com/Ffs_OMG/status/1183397555914366976
Or i cant listen shows or songs on mixcloud.
for example https://www.mixcloud.com/parapolitika-parapolitika/%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%89%CF%81%...
i get the message
"Sorry - your browser is not supported.
Please update your browser or install another such as Google Chrome. Mixcloud requires HTML5 audio with MP3 and MP4 support."
I suspect that these 2 problems relate.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance!
On Oct 13, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Georgios gpdsbe+centos@mailbox.org wrote:
Hello.
Im new on Centos I recently installed Centos 8 and i have the following problem with my browser
I cant play media on the browser.
for example i cant play. https://twitter.com/Ffs_OMG/status/1183397555914366976
CentOS doesn’t ship with certain patent-encumbered packages, such as ffmpeg-libs, which I believe is necessary for Firefox on EL7 and EL8 to use certain codecs.
I believe that elrepo.org http://elrepo.org/ has ffmpeg-libs for el8. https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/8/x86_64/repoview/ffmpeg-lib...
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org
On Oct 13, 2019, at 11:54 AM, Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
I believe that elrepo.org http://elrepo.org/ has ffmpeg-libs for el8. https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/8/x86_64/repoview/ffmpeg-lib... https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/8/x86_64/repoview/ffmpeg-libs.html
I started writing that sentence and realized it was rpmfusion, which is the correct URL. Ignore the elrepo.org http://elrepo.org/ mention.
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org
Thanks!!!! problem solved!
ps.I think Centos is becoming a really reliable OS for my laptop :-)
On Sun, 2019-10-13 at 11:55 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Oct 13, 2019, at 11:54 AM, Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
I believe that elrepo.org http://elrepo.org/ has ffmpeg-libs for el8. https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/8/x86_64/repoview/ffmpeg-lib... https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/8/x86_64/repoview /ffmpeg-libs.html
I started writing that sentence and realized it was rpmfusion, which is the correct URL. Ignore the elrepo.org http://elrepo.org/ mention.
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org
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Le 13/10/2019 à 17:43, Georgios a écrit :
Im new on Centos I recently installed Centos 8 and i have the following problem with my browser
I cant play media on the browser.
CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and-whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for years, here for example:
https://www.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-entreprise-centos-7-kde/
On the other hand, CentOS out of the box is a rather frustrating experience on the desktop.
Cheers,
Niki
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and-whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for years, here for example:
https://www.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-entreprise-centos-7-kde/
On the other hand, CentOS out of the box is a rather frustrating experience on the desktop.
I've always disagreed with this view, however common it appears to be.
RHEL is sold as an Enterprise OS for Server, Cloud, Desktop, Laptop. CentOS surely shouldn't be seen any differently.
What is it that makes CentOS a bad desktop OS?
I can install CentOS 8 on my laptop now, with a perfectly usable desktop, and 10 years of support. Google Chrome runs just fine, and I can use containers via singularity on top for anything exotic.
What exactly am I missing out on by not running something else?
jh
Well kind of.
for example i had to do the following stuff for my laptop
-add epel repository so i can install keepassxc -manual install eclipse -enable rpmfusion in order to have --media support on my browser and --install totem codecs in order for it to play video files
With flatpak i think centos is more desktop friendly. The rest of the apps where installed through flatpak so it was quite easy. Most of these apps arent on Centos repositories so without flatpak it would be a bit difficult. Also with flatpak you can have newer versions of the apps that could be a problem.
Besides that i have to say.
flatpak itself is really old and it doesn't support my yubikey. Thats the reason i had to install keepassxc through epel repository and not flatpak. I do hope flatpak gets updated on a future point release.
Another problem i currently have is that evolution after suspense sometimes it seems to brake. It happened 2 times last weeks but i could not reproduce.
I previous had debian 9 and 10. If i compare these 2 i have to say.
Centos 8 had a bit less configuration for laptop compared with debian 9 but a bit more compared to debian 10.
I guess it all depends what you want to do with your laptop. For basic usage it seems fine.
Anyway for the time being it seems usable. But i wouldn't recommend it to someone who use linux for the first time. I would suggest ubuntu or something like this.
On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 14:18 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and- whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for years, here for example:
https://www.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-entreprise-centos-7-kde/
On the other hand, CentOS out of the box is a rather frustrating experience on the desktop.
I've always disagreed with this view, however common it appears to be.
RHEL is sold as an Enterprise OS for Server, Cloud, Desktop, Laptop. CentOS surely shouldn't be seen any differently.
What is it that makes CentOS a bad desktop OS?
I can install CentOS 8 on my laptop now, with a perfectly usable desktop, and 10 years of support. Google Chrome runs just fine, and I can use containers via singularity on top for anything exotic.
What exactly am I missing out on by not running something else?
jh _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I forgot to add that i had to change to desktop profile from network- throughput in order to manage to copy my photo files from my external hard disk to my laptop. If i didnt do that my laptop froze. :-!
Had to On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 16:02 +0200, Georgios wrote:
Well kind of.
for example i had to do the following stuff for my laptop
-add epel repository so i can install keepassxc -manual install eclipse -enable rpmfusion in order to have --media support on my browser and --install totem codecs in order for it to play video files
With flatpak i think centos is more desktop friendly. The rest of the apps where installed through flatpak so it was quite easy. Most of these apps arent on Centos repositories so without flatpak it would be a bit difficult. Also with flatpak you can have newer versions of the apps that could be a problem.
Besides that i have to say.
flatpak itself is really old and it doesn't support my yubikey. Thats the reason i had to install keepassxc through epel repository and not flatpak. I do hope flatpak gets updated on a future point release.
Another problem i currently have is that evolution after suspense sometimes it seems to brake. It happened 2 times last weeks but i could not reproduce.
I previous had debian 9 and 10. If i compare these 2 i have to say.
Centos 8 had a bit less configuration for laptop compared with debian 9 but a bit more compared to debian 10.
I guess it all depends what you want to do with your laptop. For basic usage it seems fine.
Anyway for the time being it seems usable. But i wouldn't recommend it to someone who use linux for the first time. I would suggest ubuntu or something like this.
On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 14:18 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and- whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for years, here for example:
https://www.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-entreprise-centos-7-kde/
On the other hand, CentOS out of the box is a rather frustrating experience on the desktop.
I've always disagreed with this view, however common it appears to be.
RHEL is sold as an Enterprise OS for Server, Cloud, Desktop, Laptop. CentOS surely shouldn't be seen any differently.
What is it that makes CentOS a bad desktop OS?
I can install CentOS 8 on my laptop now, with a perfectly usable desktop, and 10 years of support. Google Chrome runs just fine, and I can use containers via singularity on top for anything exotic.
What exactly am I missing out on by not running something else?
jh _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On 10/15/19 3:18 PM, John Hodrien wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
CentOS is a desktop distribution in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. Of course you can turn it into a full-blown bells-and-whistles desktop by fine-tuning the configuration and adding lots of third-party stuff. I've done this myself for years, here for example:
https://www.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-entreprise-centos-7-kde/
On the other hand, CentOS out of the box is a rather frustrating experience on the desktop.
I've always disagreed with this view, however common it appears to be.
RHEL is sold as an Enterprise OS for Server, Cloud, Desktop, Laptop. CentOS surely shouldn't be seen any differently.
What is it that makes CentOS a bad desktop OS?
I can install CentOS 8 on my laptop now, with a perfectly usable desktop, and 10 years of support. Google Chrome runs just fine, and I can use containers via singularity on top for anything exotic.
What exactly am I missing out on by not running something else?
They are talking about a fact that RHEL (and CentOS) do not provide packages that have non-FOSS licenses, like Broadcom drivers, video codecs, flash, etc., and you need 3rd-party repo like Nux-dextop, rpmfusion for those, while almost all other distro's do provide those packages and you only need to select non-FOSS packages from OFFICIALY SUPPORTED repositories.
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