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Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Released
An anonymous reader writes "Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" has been released! Direct links for the US install iso or the US install torrent file." Update: 10/13 18:08 GMT by Z : Linux.com has a look at the release, in-depth.
That site rocks. Got almost everything I could want set up very nicely. I probably won't even move up to 5.10 until Ubuntuguide is updated.
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Neither. The amazing thing about Ubuntu is that stuff just works, usually with little to no wankery.
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
Ditto for Edubuntu. I mentiod both, and a list of new feature highligts, in my submission, which got rejected. It would be nice if editors could add a reason for rejecting posts; it could help submitters write better stories in the future.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
I would say that ubuntu is perfect for developing, it leaves all the stupid configuring to the people who spend their life doing it and let us ordinary programmers not care about things those insignifaicant things. Since it commesout so often it's very seldom that you don't have an development library that you need, it somehow always seems to make it into the next version at just exatcly the right time.
Now Ubunutu isn't very good on installing games, if you want to do that go with Gentoo which IMHO actally has the best installation procedures for commercial games (demos).
::shocked that anyone would consider 1GHz computer inadequate for anything::
I've ran a reasonably modern GNOME desktop on a P3-600MHz machine just smoothly without any problems, so I don't think you'll have any problems with a 1GHz machine. Unless you want to play Doom 3 or something.
(I wouldn't consider even getting an operating system / GUI environment that needs whole gigahertz for itself. Would suck knowing that my 3000+ Athlon would chomp 1000 MHz just to run the OS =/ )
His idea of "unusable for video" is "doesn't play all my proprietary crap". This is a plugin problem, not a gstreamer problem. Also, gstreamer does releases like GNOME and the kernel, odd numbers are unstable. 0.9 will be 0.10 when it's finished.
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No, I think he probably means it can't play the video without skipping like crazy and dying often, the performance is many times worse than mplayer or vlc (or I suppose xine, but I don't use that). This being totem-gstreamer.
Totem-gstreamer also sucks for audio. From personal experience, playing ogg vorbis results in it dying with a nice little dialog box (GStreamer encountered a general resource error) if you use the cpu for anything else at the same time. (this being a 700mhz P3, entirely adequate for the media with any other OS/player)
It's typical horrible gnome bloat :(. I use and enjoy gnome, but this really is a framework that isn't ready for general consumption.
Certain packages can only be distributed in source code form for licencing reasons; mplayer is one of them {LAME and PINE also spring to mind}. Though it should be possible to build a deb file so as to include dependencies for the compilation environment itself and everything that mplayer depends upon {so the compilation is certain to proceed cleanly}; put the source code somewhere sane; and perform the actual compilation step from within the post-install script.
This would finally make compiling from source as easy as installing a binary package.
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If not because they are patent encumbered or restricted give me a frigging button to press that will install support for these.
That's like asking the seller of water pipes "Well, if you can't give me drugs then give me a frigging map that'll tell me where to find it." There's such a thing as legal liability, and Ubuntu needs none of it. There's more than enough independent people willing to make that for them, there's no reason for them to endanger their project. Remember that unlike Debian or such there's someone with a decent bit of cash behind Ubuntu, and I'm sure they'd love to sue for it.
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