How to Use Multimedia on Red Hat and CentOS
Mar 30, 2017
Red Hat Linux won’t play MP3 audio or MPEG video files. This isn’t a new issue. Red Hat removed the codecs, the encoding and decoding shared libraries, back in September 2002 when Red Hat 8 came out. For the first five years they provided an explanation, you can still find it at archive.org. The decision […]
CentOS Linux,
linux,
MP3,
MPEG,
multimedia,
Oracle Linux,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
RPM,
Scientific Linux,
software package management,
YUM
You Just Installed Red Hat? Now It’s Time to Fix the Names
Mar 9, 2017
The installer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ported faithfully to CentOS, doesn’t give you a lot of control. Or at least not obvious control. You can work around some of the annoyances if you know the right tricks. Let’s look into fixing some of them after the fact. This will be a usefully challenging test […]
