Linux

DarkNovaGamer said:

Dinesh said:

OK now I m into Linuxmint 9. Changes-- I dont see any. LOL.

Hmm then.

Eh, I'll just install Ubuntu then. At any rate, off to do a joyful install of Windows 7!

For some reason, I find Ubuntu a bit painful. When you eagerly want to play a youtube video, you 1st need to install flash player, IF you want to play an MP3 song, 1st install the necessary codecs, etc. Whereas, Linuxmint is a complete package.

Well I also noticed that Linuxmint 9 gives AERO effect like Vista and 7 by holding Windows Logo Key+Tab.

The problem is that when I hold the win+tab key, it gives the AERO effect but then it wont let me capture the screenshot. I have tried to do Print screen but it didnt work.

Dinesh said:

For some reason, I find Ubuntu a bit painful. When you eagerly want to play a youtube video, you 1st need to install flash player, IF you want to play an MP3 song, 1st install the necessary codecs, etc. Whereas, Linuxmint is a complete package.

Well, that is because Ubuntu is remaining true to only incorporating and using OpenSource software in their distribution. Unfortunately, these other technologies and codecs are not open in their implementations, and thus have restricted the distribution of these technologies. Also the reason that systems like Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X are simply not given away..as they have to license the use of these technologies within their products.

The beauty to me of the Linux system, is that the end user has complete control to easily change and rectify what isn't to their liking. Thus, with Ubuntu, if the end user chooses to download and use these technologies, the OS will allow it. In fact, it's even well documented on the Ubuntu site how to add these features into your OS.

For the board's reference, on Ubuntu 10.04 (the current release), here are the quick and easy steps to rectifying these issues. These things are super easy when you know exactly what to type. Just copy and paste these into a terminal and you are all set.

Getting multimedia working
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Installing VLC movie player
sudo apt-get install vlc
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

Installing Sun Java Support and Firefox Java Plugin
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Max Peck said:

Linux may have made an impact in the server room but, from what I'm hearing, it's not gaining ground there any more either.

Hmmm....not so sure about that statement. My company is about 60% Linux on our web servers and hosted applications. And we are currently retiring and removing as much of our Windows stuff as we can in order to reduce licensing costs for our Microsoft platforms. Even with volume license agreements and such, these servers are far from cost free to implement.

Max Peck said:

You'll just have to be content with what you can find out there on the web because you certainly aren't going to find anything for it at Office Depot or Best Buy.

I don't think that is an issue for most people. I get all of my software from the web on my Windows machines as well...with the exception of the random video game that I buy. And even many of them are available via the web these days.

Max Peck said:

You also aren't going to find a market with Linux if you're a freelance software developer. You can probably count your customers on two fingers if you draw a 200 mile radius circle around your present location!

However, a web developer will undoubtedly run into Apache and Tomcat all over the place...talking to mySQL or PostGres databases. And why spend the money to license Windows for the server and then turn around and run software which is primarily developed for and runs fantastic on Linux platforms on Windows instead?

Dinesh said:

DarkNovaGamer said:

Dinesh said:

OK now I m into Linuxmint 9. Changes-- I dont see any. LOL.

Hmm then.

Eh, I'll just install Ubuntu then. At any rate, off to do a joyful install of Windows 7!

For some reason, I find Ubuntu a bit painful. When you eagerly want to play a youtube video, you 1st need to install flash player, IF you want to play an MP3 song, 1st install the necessary codecs, etc. Whereas, Linuxmint is a complete package.

For those reasons you dislike Ubuntu I like, I like a light load of Ubuntu, so if you don't need flash or codecs you don't load them. - IMHO