<quote who="Jason Rennie"> > I know, but I didn't expect it to be this hard either.
You're trying to do something beyond the scope of what we've delivered so far. Java will be available in universe at some stage. > Ubuntu is nice and very easy to use if you have some background and know > what you are doing. But i'm not sure I could give it to my mother to use > and expect her to get it installed or even to be able to add some packages > and so on. If my mum could use it then it would be perfect, and if my > father could then that would be a miracle on par with the parting of the > red sea. You don't need to add new sources to add new packages, there's heaps available before you even turn on universe. Synaptic is a little cryptic, but we'll have a muuuuuuch nicer Mum-focused add/remove application tool in our next release. I've watched a few very new users installing, adding new applications and so on, and have only had to guide them through the hairy bits of Synaptic. > Is there some offical place I should be sending this to, rather than > cluttering up the slug list with it ? ubuntu-users list, on lists.ubuntu.com. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://linux.conf.au/ "To do: Start up a a magazine dedicated to picky grammar. Call it 'Whom Weekly'." - WzDD -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
