[ubuntu-in] Guide for installing useful apps on Ubuntu Gutsy

[Nilesh Trivedi]

On Nov 10, 2007 10:34 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 10, 2007 9:08 PM, Nilesh Trivedi <nilesh.tr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wrote a short and simple guide for those who are trying out Ubuntu for
> the first time. This will also save time for us who have to do handholding
> for them while we make their Ubuntu installation usable.
> >
> > http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Fixing_Gutsy
> >
> > Please contribute to it and make it a definitive place to point people to.
>
> I have few comments and I need inputs from other page before fixing the
> page.
>
> 1. I have objection to the title 'Fixing Gutsy'. There is nothing wrong with
> Gutsy. 'Customizing Gutsy' is more appropriate title.
>
> 2. I really fail to understand what functionality Adobe Acrobat Reader
> provides that home users require which is not by provided by Evince (the
> default PDF reader in Ubuntu). Apart from that it is non-Free software.
>
> 3. If you install all gstreamer plugins and w32codecs you can play almost
> every media file except .rm. Also you can play those files in Firefox since
> totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin is installed by default. So I don't know what
> are you trying to achieve by recommending mozilla-plugin-vlc.
>
> 4. I haven't yet felt the need to run a Windows application. So at least I
> don't see a need to recommend wine. It defeats the purpose of using a Free
> operating system.
>
> 5. Now the most important. Your page is IMHO just a variation of
> http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats targeting a specific
> version of Ubuntu. We already have loads of guides about how to play
> restricted formats. What we need are the guides to achieve some other
> specific tasks. I hope you will take this as constructive criticism.
>
>
> Onkar
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Should we instead title this as "Tips for Ubuntu users at college campuses" ??

;-)
cheers
nilesh