Re: [tlug] Ubuntu / EPIA / Media Player

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Big mistake.  Ubuntu is for people who can spare more money than
> brains.  You don't pay for Ubuntu, but you do pay for hardware that
> could run MS Windows Vista without strain.  You can probably do a
> little better with Kubuntu.  (KDE is a little better optimized than
> GNOME, which is just an absolute pig.)

Hm. Nice to know. One of the reasons I'm using it is because a fellow
NetBSD developer switched to it for his laptop, as well as my business
partner. (It seems to run ok on his 1.8 GHz Pentium M with 2 MB of L2
cache...)

At any rate, I'm thinking that though it would be too heavy were this a
desktop system, it might not be a big problem in a "sort-of headless"
media server. We'll see.

> Rhythmbox seems popular among the people I hang out with, but they're
> not exactly the usual crowd.

I'm not exactly the usual crowd, either. I'll have a look at it; thanks.

> > 3. No ssh server installed by default. Is it just me, or is that getting
> > fairly silly?
>
> This is Ubuntu's way of telling you that it is aimed at the kind of
> user who thinks that installing the Norton viruschecker for Linux is a
> way to achieve perfect security.

Heh.

cjs
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