On Friday 09 February 2007 06:23, [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.
Ben, sigh, how I wish it were true. I have made my SuSE box work on 70% of all the sites I trawl (you-tube, nasa, google-video newyork-times video etc) (And fiddling for ever means I don't know what I did) now having setup an ubuntu box for my sister and run automatix and tried easyubuntu both yield significantly less than the 70% that I get. Too hard for a bear of little brain ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html