[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu anyone

[Zac Brown]

Correction, Ubuntu doesn't have _just_ GNOME, assuming you add the
Universe repository you gain access to numbers more of WM's and DE's. As
for the default media player, you're right, it sucks but the only reason
it doesn't work is they have no copyright infringing codecs installed.
There's a howto on the wiki about compiling and setting up mplayer with
win32codecs. I'm not sure what java/firefox issue you're speaking of but
I have never run into it nor have any of the other users I associate
with in the Ubuntu community. I've never had trouble compiling anything
either as far as needing libs goes. Sounds like you had a rough
time ;). 

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 05:04 -0500, Dennis Myhand wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:49, Fred James wrote:
> > All
> > Any one have any experience with ubuntu Linux - any thoughts or opinion 
> > to share?  Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
> > Regards
> > Fred James
> 
> I used the stable and testing versions for about 8 months.  Installs
> easy, has a lot of great features with it, only has GNOME (Which I
> prefer to use), and has a lot of good ideas behind it.  Unfortunately, a
> lot of the default programs do not work on Ubuntu.  I had hell getting a
> media player to work (never did), and there was a serious problem with
> Java and firefox.  If the program you want to use is not in the Ubuntu
> lists (called Universe, but is actually far smaller than the known
> universe), and you try to manually install it, the libs may not be there
> and you may break more stuff trying to install them than the system can
> tolerate.  I really like Ubuntu, but a lot of work still needs to be
> done.  HTH, Dennis in Victoria
> 
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