[ale] Best Linux distro for Games/Multimedia

[Mike Harrison]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a 15-year old nephew that is giving Linux a shot on his PC.
>
> Somehow a friend of his gave him a copy of Fedora 5 so he currently
> has that installed.  Obviously I need to get him on a newer distro.
>
> His 2 big complaints are no DIV-X player for multimedia and no first
> person shooter games.



I haven't tried anything DIV-X, but one of the many reasons Ubuntu rocks:

taken from:
http://www.geeklabs.com/index.php?mode=articles&submode=comments&uniq=6

Which I put in one place from medibuntu.org's more detailed setup:

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Ubuntu 7.10 is an amazing thing. But they can't do some things "legally". 
But you can... if you don't mind having things on your computer you 
theoretically should not have.

Let's start with the basics that are legal, but "not free open source 
programs" and then add the Microsoft specific codecs for  some DVD and 
other media playback  and lets do this all as root, type 'sudo -s' and 
become root. It saves some typing. and if you mess up you can always 
re-install.

If you feel lucky, cut and paste this into a file and run it as root:

apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
echo deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free 
>>/etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install libdvdcss2
apt-get install w32codec