Re: [ossig] FOSS Meet

["Raja Iskandar Shah" <ris.riscniaga@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

apt-get is good. been meaning to test out ubuntu quite a while now.

hey, why not do a ubuntu instalfest ???


Raja Iskandar Shah
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----- Original Message -----
From: Colin Charles <byte@aeon.com.my>
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 10:51 pm
Subject: Re: [ossig] FOSS Meet

> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 22:17 +0800, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote:
> 
> My Fedora Core 3 and Ubuntu perspective (both targetting the 
> desktop, so
> really, they rock)
> 
> > 1. auto-mnt or not ? that question for my 4 year old daughter 
> (she wants 
> > to watch her vcd)
> 
> You need something sane like gnome-volume-manager (g-v-m), working
> alongside with Project Utopia (i.e. with HAL and udev working its 
> magic)
> g-v-m will launch your wonderful VCD into a VCD player like totem
> automatically. It will do the same with DVDs. Music CDs, your digital
> camera, and so on
> 
> > 2. got solitaire and free cell game or not ? that's for my 
> mother @ the 
> > grandmother
> 
> AisleRiot. Though I recently (well, the girl recently) found a bug 
> in it
> where the cards tend to run off the screen because they're too large
> 
> If however they like Spider Solitaire, its not quite up to scratch
> 
> N/B: I don't do games, at all...
> 
> > 3. easy to install and update software or not ? that's me who 
> likes to 
> > fill up 40 gb hdd as fast as possible with lots of junk - i mean 
> testing 
> > material ( on average i test out about 5 applications a month)
> 
> Yum, apt, up2date on Fedora and apt-get on Ubuntu. Ubuntu has a
> "supported" package list, and they rebuild the _entire_ Debian 
> universe,which you can get via apt-get. I'd say thats about the 
> _best_ amount of
> software you're going to be getting at any rate
> -- 
> Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight 
> you, 
> then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
> 
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