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Richard PetersenBeginning Fedora Desktophttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3882-0_6

6. Graphics and Multimedia

Richard Petersen1 
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Alameda, California, USA
 

The Fedora repositories provide an extensive variety of graphic and multimedia applications, including image viewers, advanced image-manipulation programs like GIMP, music and CD players like Rhythmbox, and video players like Totem and VLC. Graphics tools available for use under Linux are listed in Table 6-2. Additionally, there is strong support for multimedia tasks from video and DVD to sound and music editing (see Tables 6-5 and 6-6).

Support for many popular multimedia codecs, specifically MP3, DVD, MKV, and DivX, are not included with the Fedora distribution, because ...

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