Congrats on the new press!

[Matthew McKinnon]

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 07:36:17AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 15:56 -0400, Monkey Boy wrote:
>>>       
>>>> NY Times article about Ubuntu on the new Dells.
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04basics.html
>>>>
>>>> They even link to the Ubuntu home page for downloads.
>>>>         
>>> And to Automatix. "To watch a movie, the Linux user must install
>>> necessary codecs, or decoders. One way to do that is to first download a
>>> program called Automatix from www.getautomatix.com."
>>>
>>> It's incredible how pervasive this meme is, and since Feisty the codec
>>> things even works automatically for most things (except DVD, and there
>>> is a 2-line command right there in the Ubuntu help in the System menu).
>>>
>>> It just seems to never go away, and new users will keep to get burnt.
>>> http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html
>>>       
>
> 	Maybe there should be something added to ubuntu-base that watches for 
> the user starting to run Automatix, then either a) stops it cold; or b) 
> give the user a full screen warning about the danger of using it, and 
> that it's a bad idea to use Automatix.
>
>   
I used automatix as I was following the guide on setting up ubuntu on 
howtoforge.com. When I came across the post from the ubuntu forums on 
the dangers of using automatix I removed it, all I need to do now is get 
a list of the software from automatix and then just get the commands to 
install them manually...

Moe