[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Gotcha - the other thing I always wonder about is Linux support for multimedia. Has that gotten any better?

I’ve had to kept mplayer sources, build that, (takes a long time) and then get various windoze codecs binaries that just work in the linux environment. All very labor intensive. I so far have yet to have a distro that just “did” multimedia right out of the box, due I’m sure, to licensing issues.

Do we ever get out of this box?

[ShadowAce]

Fedora does have the non-free codecs available in the repos. Works quite well.

[zeugma]

You get all the "free" codecs out of the box. If you want some of the "nonfree" (i.e., mp3 and others), you'll need to add the 'rpmfusion' repositories to your repo list, then get them from there. I'd also reccommend installing 'yumex'. It rocks and is better at resolving rependencies than the gui tool that comes with Fedora.