[Wolves] Ubuntu and MP3 support

[Bobby Singh]

Hello,

Then you should try Fedora.  Again may still have to
get the mp3 codec sorted.  But most things out-of-box
and you would not need to download everything and
configure stuff.  
You could consider Mepis.  This is apt-get based.  It
provides everything like firefox plugins.  Excellent
for the newbie.  But when i had it i found it slow to
boot-up and a slow desktop.  Not sure about the latest
release though.  Looking at it now maybe ways out
there to speed it up.  Using Mepis would be a good
intro to apt-get stuff, like learning about
installation and repos.  Then could move to ubuntu and
realise what to do and understand about stuff not all
being provided.

Cheers

Bobby

--- Tom Jemmett <tom.jemmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank alot both of you.  He knows a lot with
> windows, but new to linux
> so I though Ubuntu would be a nice place to start. 
> I started on
> Mandrake, but I had horrible dependancy problems so
> quickly moved to
> debian, and seeing as Ubuntu is based on debian, and
> all I have heard
> about Ubuntu is that it is great, I told him to use
> that.  I might
> start using it myself on my laptop as it seems to be
> one of the best
> distro's around for desktop use.  I haven't fedora
> yet (but I have the
> dvd for their latest release lying around somewhere)
> so I might have a
> look at that too.
> 
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