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Meanwhile, back in Ubuntu land......
Nov. 24th, 2009 11:11 pmTime for some more Linux evangelizing.
Medibuntu (http://www.medibuntu.org/) is a repository that contains much of the stuff that Ubuntu left out for legal reasons -- copyright, patent, trademark, etc. Example: codecs for playing videos, stuff for Skype, and the "Hot Babe" system temperature monitoring application. Once I added the libdvdcss2 package, I was able to play DVDs using the VLC media player. Sweet!
With the apps I've added, I think I can accomplish about 90% of my total work in Linux. The major exceptions are those apps which run under Windows only (e.g. Quicken, Semagic), and sharing MS Office documents with advanced formatting. Again, that's what wine is for.
I like the Gnome user interface over KDE. To me, Gnome is more user-intuitive and functions a lot like Windows. No need to train or retrain; I already know how to use it. I see that as a major hurdle in people adapting to -- and adopting -- Linux on the desktop.
Medibuntu (http://www.medibuntu.org/) is a repository that contains much of the stuff that Ubuntu left out for legal reasons -- copyright, patent, trademark, etc. Example: codecs for playing videos, stuff for Skype, and the "Hot Babe" system temperature monitoring application. Once I added the libdvdcss2 package, I was able to play DVDs using the VLC media player. Sweet!
With the apps I've added, I think I can accomplish about 90% of my total work in Linux. The major exceptions are those apps which run under Windows only (e.g. Quicken, Semagic), and sharing MS Office documents with advanced formatting. Again, that's what wine is for.
I like the Gnome user interface over KDE. To me, Gnome is more user-intuitive and functions a lot like Windows. No need to train or retrain; I already know how to use it. I see that as a major hurdle in people adapting to -- and adopting -- Linux on the desktop.
