[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu anyone

[Terry]

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On Apr 7, 2005 1:45 PM, Dennis Myhand <dmyhand at ednaisd.org> wrote:
> The issues I ran into were that there was no media player which "simply
> worked," and there did not seem to be a way to get any type of JRE
> working in firefox.  I was never able to get around either of these
> issues.  I don't know about which codecs they have, and it wasn't that
> the player sucked, but codecs was not in the error messages I got.  It
> simply did not work due to issues with which libs were, or were not,
> installed.  Now, I do like Ubuntu, and I did try Hoary before I went
> back to Libranet.  I hope they get thing more right than they have to
> this point.  I will not say that I won't try Ubuntu again.  I just need
> a system which has more working out of the box than Ubuntu has.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
> Behalf Of Zac Brown
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:00 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu anyone
> 
> 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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