Chris Penn wrote: > > Here is a full featured howto that will get you through most of (if > not all of) what you will need for a desktop: > http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-8.10 > Assuming you are planing on using the newest version of ubuntu. I am > current using both 8.04 and 8.10. > If Hardy is what you want, here is a howto: > http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-8.04-lts-hardy-heron > If you do go with ubuntu, you will notice on these howtos that there are a lot of media players to choose from. The other categories, like internet should be no problem, since firefox comes with the installation, and having fewer choices will be easy to overview and select. But for sound and video, I might recommend MPlayer, which you will need to install: sudo apt-get install mplayer which will probably provide all you need for media players at first anyways. You will need to get the codecs and libraries from the Medibuntu repositories, which is explained on this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
You may want a sound recorder of which audacity is a good choice, since it, I believe, has more features/capabilities than the installation sound recorder. Brasero, the install cd burner, is great, and will probably suffice for most needs in the beginning. beyond that, you can select from the choices as needs arise in the future _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_012009
