The Feisty Fawn release makes getting the non-free stuff even easier - there's a wrapper package that takes care of the bulk of any codecs you might need. Flash I installed from Adobe's site - I even found a how-to for AMD64 that was extremely simple and didn't have to install the 32-bit version of Firefox ;P I don't think Ubuntu will ever ship with stuff that has non-free licensing, but they continue to make it easier to get. Anyway, it's conceivable that Dell would ship their Ubuntu machines with codecs, flash, etc already installed.
As far as Dell doing linux for the PR, well, whatever the case, it still benefits linux users. I'm going to go with the notion that they're just putting their eggs in a couple of different baskets. I imagine (in my little world) that they did some scenario planning and determined that it may be possible that in the next couple years Microsoft is going to lose market share and people will want a vendor they can trust to turn to with pre-installed linux. - Jason L. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:07 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to > offer Ubuntu) > > > > > Basic test. Try to use a web page containing streaming > media. Ubuntu > > fails, Slackware fails, ... etc. Basically these are > distros trying > > to mimmick ease of install like Windows. > > > I do it everyday in Ubuntu. > > Oh...you meant legally? Yeah, that's a little harder. > > > Mandrake succeeds in loading the streaming embedded media > without too > > much of a hassle as codecs and other win32 proprietary codecs are > > available through an alternate site. > > > As they are for any linux distribution. > > > > > > Gentoo is another winner, but being bias here as I run Gentoo too. > > Still, Gentoo probably isn't even a consideration as it's > source based. > > > > Heh, I can't imagine Dell wanting to support "yeah, just > emerge the new version of X. It'll be done in about 3 days..." > > -ajb > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
