[advocacy] Ogg tools in Linux distros?

Jack Moffitt jack
Wed Jan 2 17:35:33 PST 2002



> I think there should be an effort to get the various Ogg tools, and
> ESPECIALLY the players, included into popular Linux distros.  Maybe
> after 1.0 comes out?  It seems like the Ogg and the Linux philosophies
> are ideal for each other.  Wouldn't it be great if everyone who had Red
> Hat or Mandrake or whatever had Ogg tools already integrated?  Maybe
> into KDE or Gnome.  The only thing better would be to get Microsoft to
> support it in the OEM Media Player.

RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD, etc all have vorbis and a player that
supports it (and encoder to make it).  This has been happening for some
time ;)

jack.

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