Subject: Re: WARTY review

[Christoph Georgi]

Maybe it would be an idea to allow users after the installation of 
Ubuntu to choose whether or not they want multimedia support installed. 
If so, couldn't Ubuntu then be upgraded via the internet? I remeber from 
SuSE that during the first online update it installed the microsoft 
fonts and the nvidia driver, which was not included on the CD, asking me 
whether I accept the EULA (or whatever). An automated "multimedia 
upgrade" using the internet wouldn't cause any licence problems, would it?

Christoph

Michel Klijmij wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 03:42:26 -0700, cyberbot at softhome.net wrote in
> <courier.418CAA92.00007C75 at softhome.net>:
> 
> 
>>However on the other hand it was mentioned that with Ubuntu the user has to 
>>find and install many or all of these packages themselves. For new Linux 
>>users, especially people coming from Winblows this is going to be quite a 
>>task and it is going to turn them off to Linux very quickly. Can you imagine 
>>a completely new Linux user trying to install Java? :o 
>>
>>Is there no way to include these things in Ubuntu? If so it would make the 
>>transition for prospective new Linux users a much, much easier pill to 
>>swallow.
> 
> 
> But there are license issues, and it would restrict what can be shipped
> with Ubuntu.
> 
> Basically, if you want what you say, you shouldn't use Ubuntu but MEPIS.
> After all, that's why there are different distributions.
> 
> Personally, I like Ubuntu the way it is, and that's why I am using it. If
> I wouldn't, I'd have been using Yellow Dog or Mandrake instead.
>