[CentOS] Desktop media apps query

Wed Nov 23 18:38:52 UTC 2005
Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com>

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:20 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 11/23/05, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Want to support the following apps on some of our centos 4.2 desktops.
> > Are yum-installable binaries/rpms available for CentOS 4.2 and which
> > repository?
> >
> > MP3 player
> > Macromedia Flash/Shockwave
> > MPlayer Media Player
> > RealPlayer 10 Media Player
> > Java J2RE and Mozilla Plug-in
> > MS TrueType fonts
> >
> 
> MS TrueType Fonts are no longer available, and there's a mess of
> licensing restriction surrounding them. Basically you can't get them
> anymore unless you know how to do it yourself.
> 
> See http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm for details.

hmmm...so that means that sites that use them will not be rendered well
on non-M$ desktops? Any open-source alternative projects coming up?

Any links on how to get them from your M$ system?

With regards.
Sanjay.