01 Jan 2006, Alex Singleton wrote

I've started a blog called A Year with Linux. I've just
replaced my Mac with a PC - but in a fit of madness
(soundness?) I've decided to use Ubuntu for twelve months.
I'll be charting my progress at:

Bookmarked; I'll be interested to follow your adventure, as I'm a
wannabee Linux type -- tried a few distros, but certain things have
continued to discourage me from going the whole hog.

(Like discovering that there can be a surprising number of involved
steps needed to install relatively obvious programs.)

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:05:15 GMT
Harvey Van Sickle <harvey.news@ntlworld.comwrote:

01 Jan 2006, Alex Singleton wrote

I've started a blog called A Year with Linux. I've just
replaced my Mac with a PC - but in a fit of madness
(soundness?) I've decided to use Ubuntu for twelve months.
I'll be charting my progress at:

Bookmarked; I'll be interested to follow your adventure, as I'm a
wannabee Linux type -- tried a few distros, but certain things have
continued to discourage me from going the whole hog.

(Like discovering that there can be a surprising number of involved
steps needed to install relatively obvious programs.)

Don't let that deter you. With Debian and its derivatives (of which
Ubuntu is one (and a good one may I add)) installation of new programs*
is trivial.

* at least if you use the proper repositories which mostly will have
whatever you need.

Cybe R. Wizard -Ubuntu Breeezy user

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:45:07 +0100, Enrique Perez-Terron
<enrio@online.nowrote:
How is it with Java? Flashplayer?
They will work with any distro.

Hi,
How is it with Java? Flashplayer?

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:29:12 GMT, Crashdamage staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:45:07 +0100, Enrique Perez-Terron
<enrio@online.nowrote:
>How is [Ubuntu] with Java? Flashplayer?
They will work with any distro.

Yes, but I believe what Enrique *meant* was "How easy is it to install
Java or Flash on Ubuntu, and will everything work properly once those
things are installed?" Ubuntu is Debian-based, and the Debian people
have a serious Free bias. Installing non-Free stuff like mplayer (some
of mplayer's codecs are only available as binary blobs) used to require
a lot of ad-hockery on Debian systems. I think they've made this
process easier now, but I'd have to go put the Debian hard disk in my
laptop and reboot it to find out for sure.

thing that seems to confuse a lot of people is the plugin directory
for Netscape-derived browsers. There is no standard location for this
directory AFAICT. Mine's at /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/ , YMMV. I have
a symlink in this directory that points to the real Flash plugin at
/ . I may have had to manually
create that symlink; I don't remember now as I installed the silly thing
a long time ago. Manually creating symlinks is not rocket science, but
Enrique may perceive it as "user unfriendly".

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:45:07 +0100
"Enrique Perez-Terron" <enrio@online.nowrote:

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:39:06 +0100, Cybe R. Wizard
<Cybe_R_Wizard@WizardsTowerwrote:

Don't let that deter you. With Debian and its derivatives (of which
Ubuntu is one (and a good one may I add)) installation of new
programs*
is trivial.

* at least if you use the proper repositories which mostly will have
whatever you need.

How is it with Java? Flashplayer?

-Enrique

Both present in the repositories:

flashplayer-nonfree 7.0.25-5

java-common0.23ubuntu3
j2re1.4 1.4.2.02-1ubuntu3

Both work fine in Firefox and
BTW, is in the repositories, too, something I didn't find in pure
Debian but which may now have changed.

Cybe R. Wizard

Flashes of Sky wrote:
>Bookmarked and enjoyed, and as an Ubuntu user, I think you should stay in
our waters! They are nice and calm :)

What made you pick Ubuntu, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm finding this group very useful - lots of good expertise. I guess I
chose Ubuntu because a lot of people are talking about it, because it's
trying to be as user-friendly as possible, and because it's free. ,
and because I liked its default brown look in the screenshots!

Alex

Flashes of Sky wrote:
>Bookmarked and enjoyed, and as an Ubuntu user, I think you should stay in
our waters! They are nice and calm :)

What made you pick Ubuntu, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm finding this group very useful - lots of good expertise. I guess I
chose Ubuntu because a lot of people are talking about it, because it's
trying to be as user-friendly as possible, and because it's free. ,
and because I liked its default brown look in the screenshots!

Alex