Please, Ubuntu, do not embarrass me again!

[jon at jcosby.com]

Quoting "Basil Chupin" <blchupin at iinet.net.au>:

> I have a friend whose system (and his wife's) has been hit by
> trojans/virii and I have had to go out to get him out of trouble. I have
> been trying to get him to move to Linux for some time. And he is also
> "into" a bit of multi-media.
>

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> Please, Ubuntu, do something in respect of getting sound to work "out of
> the box" for people who install Ubuntu.
>

An alternative would be to create a custom appliance in SUSE Studio.  
You can add/remove packages and customize it as you wish. If it has to  
be Ubuntu, you might look for Kiwi, but I don't know that Ubuntu  
maintains this package, and it has a high learning curve.

http://susestudio.com/



Jon