[Nottingham] What distro?

[Dean Sas]

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Michael Erskine wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 May 2006 18:09, Dean Sas wrote:
> 
>> Java is in both Ubuntu (6.06s Multiverse) and Debian (non-free). MP3
>> support is also in Ubuntus Universe. Only wmv, quicktime and realplayer
>> aren't in the repos as far as I know.
> 
> Dean, I think you're missing the point I was labouring: this target user 
> apparently wants it all installed from the outset without having to resort to 
> any form of package management - least of all changing package sources. And 
> the Java you refer to is gcj - have you tried running Netbeans or Eclipse 
> under gcj? All credit to the developers but it is still unusable IMHO.

Maybe I am :/, I thought that the target user was "very computer
literate"? I can't fathom that anyone who's very computer literate
wouldn't want to install apps, and I don't think that using
gnome-app-install would be an issue. If it is, then I wouldn't recommend
Ubuntu as there's no cpp compiler in the default install.

Point taken that this stuff would ideally be there out of the box, but
for someone computer literate, installing java is a non-problem and on
Ubuntu is at least as easy as it is on Windows.

The official real deal Sun Java *is* in 6.06s repositories.

dsas


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