[CS-FSLUG] Anyone else running Ubuntu & Evolution?

[Nathan T.]

Ed,

How hard is it to get the multimedia codecs installed? How about  
package management? Does the menu system comply with the Xorg  
standard, or does CentOS use a less-common system like Mandriva?
Dad would be the one needing the hand holding, I would just need to  
know where to get software from and how to get apt-get like  
functionality along with some repos. I'd be willing to run the  
distribution myself so I can build packages for when dad needs some  
exotic software; however, I wouldn't want to if they don't provide  
adequate care to the KDE packages they distribute.

Thanks.

Nathan T.

On 4-Mar-07, at 6:05 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Nathan T. wrote:
>
>> I'm also considering an alternative distribution, which in dad's case
>> would be a drastic move because he's spent years collecting a list of
>> uncommon programs to use. Dad's needs consist of being able to run
>> programs like Xastir and Evolution, and given that this isn't the
>> first time we've had problems with Ubuntu updates breaking things,
>> dependability is a must. I was considering SUSE except that dad's
>> running off a 500MHz processor and maybe half a gigabyte of ram. Can
>> anyone offer some suggestions (and please, no Gentoo or Slackware, we
>> need as much hand-holding built into the distro as possible because I
>> tend to lose my week-ends installing the next crazy app dad needs, or
>> cleaning up after the latest round of messed up updates). I've been
>> considering Mandriva again, except that there are no multimedia
>> codecs bundled with it.
>
> You'll get lots of promotions and some arguments about the ones
> rejected. Here's my offer: Install CentOS 4.4 and I'll personally  
> offer
> the hand-holding free and without limit. I have it running on a 350Mhz
> machine just fine. I'll also help with compiling packages not
> available, and help as much as I can when they break. That's not to  
> say
> it's guaranteed to work, but I'll personally provide the support to
> give it a reasonable chance.
>
> -- 
> Ed Hurst
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