Installing and newbies

[Andrew Jarrett]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdev.vispa.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 May 2008 11:34:05 -0300 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > And the install CD _should_ be in sources.list by default.
>
>  Why is that? If I am going to install something I don't want the
>  version that is on the install CD because it might by now be out of
>  date. I want the version from the repositories. Or am I missing
>  something here?

Perhaps because one may not have internet access or he/she may have dial-up.

>  Well we will just have to disagree here. I never use konqueror as a
>  browser only as a file manager, nor kontact nor kmail. For me Firefox
>  and Tbird should be default installs and most certainly the Gimp. It
>  may not be a KDE app but it's the best we have for working with
>  images. As for kedit and kate, I use them both.

The idea is to create coherence throughout the desktop.  I frequently
use both Firefox and Gimp and it annoys me that they are both GTK apps
(same for OpenOffice).

>  Java *is* included in the repos and it installed very easily. I know
>  that lots don't agree with using flash, but I don't mind. Firefox
>  offered to install it, I accepted, and it was done, literally, in
>  seconds.

Java is in the repos, but I think it is in one of the non-free ones
(at least the JDK was the last time I looked). The point here is that
Ubuntu can't legally make Sun's Java part of the default install (at
least not yet).  Flash is the same kind of deal.

Andrew

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