On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/30/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft > > > desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists with legal > > > and free as in beer access to all the multi-media drivers / codecs / > > > other fru-fru that one needs to compete with a Winders or Mac > > > MM desktop. > > > > installing automatix in Ubuntu is very easy (no command line needed) > > and addresses all the non driver, free like beer stuff. > > > > I've heard nasty reports about it, but it's been fine on every system > > I've put it on (four so far with Ubuntu 6.10), and probably is only an > > issue if you're doing custom setup of stuff - so should be ok for any > > non-geek. > > *Please* don't recommend EasyUbuntu. It is shunned by Ubuntu developers, > mostly because of its tendency to break future upgrades.
Whoops, I meant Automatix. Use EasyUbuntu instead of Automatix.
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