On Nov 10, 2007 9:08 PM, Nilesh Trivedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wrote a short and simple guide for those who are trying out Ubuntu for > the first time. This will also save time for us who have to do handholding > for them while we make their Ubuntu installation usable. > > http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Fixing_Gutsy > > Please contribute to it and make it a definitive place to point people to.
I have few comments and I need inputs from other page before fixing the page. 1. I have objection to the title 'Fixing Gutsy'. There is nothing wrong with Gutsy. 'Customizing Gutsy' is more appropriate title. 2. I really fail to understand what functionality Adobe Acrobat Reader provides that home users require which is not by provided by Evince (the default PDF reader in Ubuntu). Apart from that it is non-Free software. 3. If you install all gstreamer plugins and w32codecs you can play almost every media file except .rm. Also you can play those files in Firefox since totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin is installed by default. So I don't know what are you trying to achieve by recommending mozilla-plugin-vlc. 4. I haven't yet felt the need to run a Windows application. So at least I don't see a need to recommend wine. It defeats the purpose of using a Free operating system. 5. Now the most important. Your page is IMHO just a variation of http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats targeting a specific version of Ubuntu. We already have loads of guides about how to play restricted formats. What we need are the guides to achieve some other specific tasks. I hope you will take this as constructive criticism. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same.
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