ubuntu

I had installed and un-installed Fedora about a year ago. I just got frustrated trying to get stuff to work and finally gave it the heave ho when I wanted the space for movies.

Well I installed Ubuntu (latest release from Ubuntu’s site) last night on my laptop. All’s going pretty well, the only thing I can’t get to work at this point is the DVD for movies. I had it working under Fedora but I can not seem to quite get it with Ubuntu.
I’m thinking I am going to uninstall off of it, xine, mplayer, VLC, dvdlibcss and start over and see if that fixes it. Anyone have any idea’s? The computer is a 1.8gh Celeron mobile with I think 512 mb of ram, DL dvd combo drive. (it will burn DL DVD disks). Duel boot (windows XP Pro sp 2 with part of sp 3 and Ubuntu)

All and all I’m very happy, and impressed. It recognized everything and even wireless worked out of the box. Can’t seem to get dosemu to work, but dosbox is working fine and I have it configured to do what I want it to do. It recognized my Windows network and even installing my network printer was a piece of cake.

It’s been a little time consuming, but really not much worse then a window’s reinstall, and most of that has been a because of the learning curve involved but it sure does feel good, to take my computer back from Microsoft, the script kiddies, and most viruses.

As a matter of fact, I think we will be doing most of our web browsing from Ubuntu, just because of the security. Visual basic will have to live with XP for now.

Raymond