Dear Peter, some years ago I moved from Europe to Australia. In Europe we had within the community I was living, people living next door who could help in setup issues. As far as I understand the Linux community here in Australia is still very young and Linux as an OS not very popular yet. Because of the distances it's even more difficult to find together, but it will come.
Each system offers advantages and disadvantages and we should leave it to the individual with its individual preferences. I like my Ubuntu 8.04 and the rest of the family which is also quite happy in using either Ubuntu or Edubuntu, We had some issues, switching from XP to Suse Linux and than later to Ubuntu but they are all solved. All of us are now working on very stable systems either in the business, for hobby or school. In regard to the editing programs have a look on GIMP for photo editing,, and F-Spot for photo management, if you didn't had a look at it before. KINO or/and AVidemux for video editing are very good so far and meet my needs for video editing. The classical genealogy program in Linux is Gramps, I use Gramps and GenealogyJ. Regards Ferdinand -----Original Message----- From: Peter Goggin <petergog...@bigpond.com> To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com <ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Problems with Ubuntu 9.1 Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:40:45 +1100 I read with interest the supposed problems with installing ubuntu 9.1 and getting applications to work. The implication was that it was much easier with windows. This is completely contrary to my experience. I use XP home with programs such as Power Producer for video editing and DVD creation. At the beginning of the year my mother board died and a new one was installed with a clean installation of XP. So far I have not been able to get Power Producer to work. The manufacturer of the software says it is a driver issue, even though the l;ates drivers for all the periperal cards were installed. Windows experts point to the software. No one wants to own the problem and so I have had to purchase other programs. I am gradually putting equivalent application on my Linux box and when I can find a video editing program like VideoReDo , a good genealogy program and a photoediting I will thankfully wave goodbye to Windows and Microsoft. Every application I have installed on Linux using synaptic package manager has worked first time and I have never had problems with missing components. I would like to thank all those people who have devoted time and energy to make this possible. Regards Peter Goggin
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