Ubuntu is not a good distribution for Multimedia

[Ben Edwards]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 13:47:44 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> As far as I understand it, Ubuntu is one of the distros that offers the
> most complete package selection. What distro were you using before that
> had all the softaware you wanted in the very latest version that you
> wanted ?

Not sure if your understanding is quite right.  Ubuntu offers a very
good but reduced set of packages selekted specificaly for 'Standard
Desktop' use.  To describe Ubuntu as offering 'the most complete
package selection' it would have to suport at least as mutch as Debian
Sarge.  The reduced package selection is a good thing from a suport
point of you and douse make it a great distro for day to day desktop
use.

> Also, Ubuntu as extremely quick at adding updated versions to their
> repository. I am using Gnumeric, a spreahseet program. The latest stable
> version was released 2 weeks ago, and I found out the within 24 or 48
> hours, theere were already .deb packages for it on the Ubuntu server.
> However these are for the development version of Ubuntu. Obviously, if
> you are running the stable version which was released only a month ago,
> then you will have to wait 5 month for the next stable Ubuntu to be
> released, in april.
> However nothing stops you from installing these packages on the current
> stable Ubuntu, you just need to enable the Hoary repositories in
> Synaptic and downlaod from there.

True for standard/business apps but no nesseserily for multimedia.

> Also, you can always get whatever program you want, just grab the
> sources and compile it ! If you are into compilng kernels like you say,
> you must a highly skilled and experience Linux user, so compiling an
> application must be peanuts for you.

I have been compiling sources but was hoping to do newbie howtos for
multimedia.  The problem with compiling from source 9I belive) is that
apt douse not know about stuff you have added and doing a 'apt-get
update' can write over some of your built from source stuff or give
you two versions of things.

> So, I don't see anything that could stop you from using Ubuntu.. welcome
> aboard Ben !! :o)

I'me already aboard ;) - Was involved with Ubuntu doc stuff a while
ago and have been pushing Ubuntu for a couple of months now.  I was
tryingt o work out wether I could adopt Ubunto for music stuff or
wether to use Angola.

Ben

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