Re: [tlug] apple microsoft ads

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Josh,

No one seems to have mentioned it yet, at least not in this thread, but 
Novell Linux put out some ads that expand on the Mac versus PC ads, with 
a woman representing Linux.

I think more could have been done with the premise, but I suppose it at 
least puts the word out.

There are three that I know of. This one I think is the better of the three:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVOnFdMf0RU&mode=related&search=

On a more technical level, so far as I've been able to tell, I can play 
Quicktime movies in Xine, Totem, Mplayer, and VLC. I think once you have 
the right codecs on your machine, just about any player will handle 
Quicktime or any other format.

I don't recall having to ever specifically download Quicktime related 
codecs. I did, however, right when first installing Ubuntu, download 
pretty much everything video related, such as a package called 
"w32codecs", because I wanted to ensure as much as possible that I 
wouldn't encounter errors when trying to view anything. It's possible I 
pulled in the right Quicktime codecs then.

Hope that helps.

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Dave M G
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
Kernel 2.6.20-16-386