[Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

Alan euglug at thebucks.net
Fri May 4 12:52:12 PDT 2007


> roger wrote:
 Ubuntu is basically a trouble free install (as easy as a
> Windows install)... only lacking Flash & Video codec issues, for which,
> Mandriva and other distros have already resolved with a simple package
> install.
>

You mean like this?
ajb at not-my-machine:~$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
w32codecs is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ajb at not-my-machine:~$

> This is basically a licensing issue Ubuntu ran into and got cold feet.
>
By "cold feet", you mean "followed the law"?


-ajb




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