web photo gallery builders in Gnome?

[Dan Martin]

On Fri, October 28, 2005 4:46 pm, Timothy A. Holmes said:
> Thanks so much for your help, I finally got it working -- I think -- I
> am getting ready to move some files so I have something to play with --
> I appreciate your help.

No problem.  Glad things are working.

> This is a prime example of my biggest beef with linux (whatever flavor)
> -- I use fedora extensively at work.  If you want people to use it, its
> gotta be easier to install stuff -- I have spent about 6 hours today
> messin with this
>
> If it hadn't been for your help, I never would have gotten it running

I would say this isn't typical for Ubuntu.  Most software installs through Synaptic with ease.  The real thing causing Java
installs to be so difficult is that Ubuntu chooses to support only "free" (as in freedom) software.  If Ubuntu installed
Sun's Java, or made it easy to install Sun's Java, this wouldn't be quite so difficult.  In my experience with Ubuntu, if
it's free (as in freedom) software, its usually pretty easy to install, and if not, it's often a pain.

Don't get me wrong, I understand Ubuntu's philosophy.  It's not my personal philosophy, but if that's the approach they want
to take in providing me with a great distribution, it's their choice to make.  No complaints here.