[Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

[Ben Barrett]

Other distro's have "alternate sites", like Debian, Fedora, etc...
and can indeed support the streaming media you mention.

HOWEVER:  have you found any that support the media you mention,
out of the box?!  Hardly any users will find the alternate sites, and/or
figure out how to enable that support.

Dislike Ubuntu?  What does that get you, on EUGLUG??  :))

ben


On 5/2/07, roger <roger at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:13 -0700, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
> > larry price wrote:
> > > http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx
> > >
> > > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/dell-to-offer-ubuntu
> > >
> > > I for one welcome our new direct to consumer overlords.
> >
> > something tells me they are unhappy with either Vista's pricing or its
> > hardware requirements; expect a quiet deal with M$ by Christmas, unless
> > it really is the beginning of the Fall of the House of Ballmer...
>
> Nah. This is just a PR stunt demonstrating how unprofitable Linux really
> is.
>
> Have you ever tried comparing Ubuntu to any other distro?
>
> I still consider Mandrake, or even RedHat to be far superior.
>
> Basic test.  Try to use a web page containing streaming media.  Ubuntu
> fails, Slackware fails, ... etc.  Basically these are distros trying to
> mimmick ease of install like Windows.
>
> Mandrake succeeds in loading the streaming embedded media without too
> much of a hassle as codecs and other win32 proprietary codecs are
> available through an alternate site.
>
> As for the other distros I mentioned, I couldn't find any alternate site
> for codecs, if at all. (Ubuntu had something similar to Mandrake's
> alternate site, matter of fact, using the same site.  But it got
> yanked.)
>
> Gentoo is another winner, but being bias here as I run Gentoo too.
> Still, Gentoo probably isn't even a consideration as it's source based.
>
> --
> Roger
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> Wed May 2 01:40:59 PDT 2007
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