Fedora beating me down... any distro suggestions?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 12:53 -0700, stu wrote:
> I can highly recommend MEPIS as I've been running it on my HP ze4420us
> laptop for quite some time now, and have had no problems with it. 
> To view some video files, you may have to go to the Mplayer website, download 
> the "essential codecs" package, untar it and install the files 
> into /usr/lib/win32. For video viewing, I find that I prefer xine, since 
> mplayer doesn't appear to have a front end under Debian based distros like 
> MEPIS, although the mplayer plug-in for Firefox works OK.
> 
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don't know about deb packages but mplayer certainly has skins...

# rpm -qa|grep mplayer
mplayer-1.0-36_pre5.rhfc3.at
mplayer-fonts-1.0-6.at
mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_12.at
mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.1.at
mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.1.fc3.rf

Craig