Hi,
Glad your enjoying Ubuntu 7.04, one person on here keeps saying to try Automatix, well I tried it and it really frapped up my computer, it took me 3 days to straighten out and get working again, it even took out Windows Vista, which was on a seperate hard drive, now I don't know if I did something wrong with Automatix or if it is malicious software, anyhow I won't try it again, until somebody proves that I messed up the installation somehow.
But on the other hand since I have been using Linux since the first editions that came out I don't think I messed up.
Some books that you can buy at the book stores for Ubuntu:
Ubuntu Bible and Ubuntu Hacks, I like Ubuntu Hacks the best the author speaks in plain language and does not try to impress anyone with his knowledge of Ubuntu, the bible goes deeper in depth on how to control Ubuntu down to the brass tacks, (American saying for down to the basics). Any how I am going to re-install my DVD movie player tonight, so that I can watch movies on my system, I will try to write down the steps for you and get them to you. If I don't forget, I am getting old and senile.
Anyhow, Ubuntu seemed pretty solid for the past 6 months until I tried Automatix, I had no problems, Ubuntu has taken the place of Windows Vista as my main operating system, the only reason I have Vista at all is to play the new games that are arriving, X10 shading is awesome.
Now in order to play windows games on Ubuntu, I suggest Cedega, it costs $5.00 a month to join and they have a huge list of games that they have adapted to play on Linux systems. Currently I am playing Far Cry, Castle Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Viet Nam, and Half Life.
I am also playing the chip tunes from the Aminet disks, you have to download LHA and install it, but through Synaptec it is a cinch, you then uncompress the files, download the restricted mod codec and the tunes will play in Rhythmbox Music player (pretty cool) you can also uncompress pictures and mpegs and play them. Not as easy as the Amiga, but I am sure if there is enough intrest, someone will come up with a way to do it as easily as Aminet did. Also look at all the free programs you can download and install, Kine does video editing, Lives also does video editing, so far I like lives the best, it has more features than Kine but is also slower.
Now to make someone angry, my main feature.
I went to Niagra falls and crossed over to Canada to do some hunting, bagged three Canadians I did.
To all you poor users using Macs, I feel really sorry for you, gave in to the I want to use it but not know it crowd.(Now where is that On/Off switch at. RTFM to find out, it only has one line in it, it explains where it is at and how to use it, in 71 different languages.
Wayne do you own a MAC or have a Big MAC?
smerf
