April 23rd it's my birthday.. :)) thank u for the present)

I am fully in support of the Linux community and what they are trying to do. Operating systems and programs are becoming a big part of our daily lives and are increasingly important to us at, home, work and play. I have joined the ubuntu development team and will try to make my voice heard over some issues and improvements that I can see need to be made. However for those who don't like the desktop - CHANGE IT! That's what linux is all about. We as the users and developers have that flexibility, unlike users of that OTHER OS...!

Here in India, we like to use the Ubuntu very much...
But, due to the lack of sufficient basic plugins such as the ability to play mp3 or any video file, even though it has a player, we dont use the software and turn to windows instead....
the videos can only be played if we have an internet connection and after downloading files from the internet...
But what if we dont have internet connected to our homes???
even installation packages are not available for download.....

it has to be connected to the internet and has to download the packages by itself... which is not a feature which we desire where internet connectivity is not available.....

Use Linux Mint instead - it comes with all the codecs and is based on ubuntu.

you are down right correct. But they cant help it brother, its a legal problem.

I suggest u use mandriva if u have problem with codes and stuff.

You are not right, as there are some well done workarounds.
Check this here: http://nyuviu.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/ubuntu-804-soundprobleme-mit-audacity-pulseaudio-skype-twinkle-jack
and may update to that workaround. Its in German, so you will need http://translate.google.com to translate in yoour favorite language. With this workaround you get all sound including flash and restricted formats as mp3, wav and sound smoothly working. Let me know if you need help.
Hope that helps.

Please could applications chosen to be included into the distro, better integrate with each other. Gnome and KDE applications are typically less stable than windows applications (a generalization).

Huh? how do you figure that??

"Please could applications chosen to be included into the distro, better integrate with each other. Gnome and KDE applications are typically less stable than windows applications (a generalization)."

Where did you get this from billy? I'd like to know.

I use Ubuntu for server and desktop. I love it in anyway. After all it's free and much more stable than Microsoft product. I really hate the way windows restart my computer after some what they called "important security update".

Have you heard from Medibuntu? http://www.medibuntu.org/ Follow the instructions and do a little downloading and then your issue will be fixed. Olus some extracodecs from the repository. Then fix sound and video, there are some issues in 8.04 and 8.10. Checḱ this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578
After you have created a working system with all your favorites and sound and video working: Install and use Remastersys http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/ to make distributable copies of your system.
I hope this helps. Let me know, if you need more.
Namasté

Peer

ubuntu can play all media types and youtube. here is 2 simple things you can do to achieve it all. go to the package manager inside of ubuntu. click install firefox first. then search for ubuntu restricted programs. install this..and BAM you have all abilitys to watch any media files. if you don't. install MPLAYER as a 3rd option.

best regards

Dear sirs

My opinion is at the all Ubuntu distros exept those have a ssome kind of Kaffeine version
what is not working my Hauppauge Nova T-PCI DVB card are exellent (version 8.5 is the staple in the earliel versions, anit shows t finnish all channels, what about this Ubuntu version Kaffeine. Because K3b an Kaffeine are the importantt progs.Also the codec pacs. (libxine an so on....)

sincerily youirs

Jukka nuutinen
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