As it was discussed in the last newscast: Of course Ubuntu ships just the Open Source stuff but for instance when installing 10.4 on my machine with NVidia card it immediately comes up with a popup after installation that there is a better fitting driver available for my video card and it offers me to immediately install it.
Apart from that you can activate the partner repositories and even more repositories if you install Ubuntu Tweak - things like Skype then immediately available by searching for the app and checking it to install! There are also prepared meta-packages for all the closed source codecs for mp3 and the like. If this is not enough, try Linux Mint which already includes a some of the closed source stuff - like the mp3 etc codecs. Although there is either always some things to complain, I can see Linux on the desktop becoming better with each release of Ubuntu, Fedora or Linux Mint at least (those are the distributions I use/test most). And I am running Linux at home (Fedora so far) since about 2005 (took my wife about two weeks to get familiar with and since then a single time OO crashed and had to recover a document - so she needs my support far less than before switching). And in the office I use Linux (Ubuntu) since a year and I am very happy. I have looked at Windows 7 and I cannot find any real feature that increases my productivity. There are really a lot of people still thinking that Linux is only for commandline freaks (apart from the many people never heard about it). -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
