[nzlug] favourite distro

[Simon Bridge]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 17:40 +1300, yuri wrote:
> On 08/01/2008, Simon Bridge wrote:

>  Lets
> > give the user a *chance* to decide to learn.
> 
> CD ripping software on PCLinuxOS defaults to ogg.
> This bothered my brother because he wanted to move stuff to his son's
> MP3 player.
> Before changing his ripping default, I copied an ogg file to the
> player and tried to play it.
> It played! (Dick Smith branded 1GB or 2GB player slightly bigger than
> a thumb drive - docs only said it played MP3 and wma).
> 
> Other encoding software also defaults to open codecs.
> I like this approach - create open but play both open and proprietary.

Exactly the sort of thing... if it defaulted to mp3, you wouldn't have
tried.