I just installed Fedora 14 KDE Spin and like many other Linux distros, it does not play MP3, MPEG and several other formats by default. To enable playback of these proprietary formats, you must install non-free codecs. To get those, I installed the Livna and RPM Fusion repos by clicking the following links and opening each with KPackageKit:
Livna
RPM Fusion Free
RPM Fusion Non-Free
[HOWTO] Make Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Mono Free
Ubuntu 10.04 comes with 3 default applications that depend on mono. They are F-Spot, a photo manager Tomboy, a note taking application Gbrainy, brain teaser game and trainer To get rid of mono and still keep the functionality, we need non-mono alternatives to these applications. Lets look at those. But first, let me write something [...]
