On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/30/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft > > desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists with legal > > and free as in beer access to all the multi-media drivers / codecs / > > other fru-fru that one needs to compete with a Winders or Mac > > MM desktop. > > installing automatix in Ubuntu is very easy (no command line needed) > and addresses all the non driver, free like beer stuff. > > I've heard nasty reports about it, but it's been fine on every system > I've put it on (four so far with Ubuntu 6.10), and probably is only an > issue if you're doing custom setup of stuff - so should be ok for any > non-geek.
*Please* don't recommend EasyUbuntu. It is shunned by Ubuntu developers, mostly because of its tendency to break future upgrades. EasyUbuntu[1] is much nicer on the system, and should provide far fewer headaches as time goes on. [1] http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ -- "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 1980
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