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[klug] EasyUbuntu

Daniel daniel.morgn at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 21:59:47 NZST 2006


I remember doing all that crap via terminal. It's good someone finally had a
brainwave and did it.

On 9/13/06, Peter Dinnan <pral at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just found out about this little app for Ubuntu users; it downloads
> and installs the following...
>
> Multimedia
>       * Enhance video player: Install a better multimedia backend
>         (totem-xine replace totem-gstreamer)
>       * Free Codecs: Add Support for playing mp3 and other non-free
>         formats
>       * Binary Codecs: Add support for proprietary video and audio
>         formats (w32codecs) (only x86)
>       * libdvdcss: Read commercial and encrypted DVDs
>       * MIDI: Add support for playing midi files
> Web
>       * Flash: Enable the Macromedia Flash plugin (only x86)
>       * Java: Enable the Java plugin (Sun Java for x86, amd64) (IBM java
>         for ppc)
>       * Videos: Enable viewing videos embedded in webpages
> Archives
>       * RAR: extract and create RAR archives
>       * ACE: extract ACE archives
>       * 7-Zip: Extract 7-Zip archives
> System
>       * Repository list: Main, Universe, Multiverse and PLF (replace
>         your previous sources.list)
>       * Fonts: Install Microsoft and other nice fonts
>       * DMA: Enable Direct Memory Access to improve DVD reading (breezy)
>       * Nvidia: install the official driver to enable 3D on Nvidia
>         graphics cards
>       * ATI: install the official driver to enable 3D on ATI graphics
>         cards
> Voice Over IP
>       * Wengo: a free Voice Over IP software (available in dapper)
>       * Skype: the most popular VoIP software (only x86)
>
>
> Here's the link for anyone interested
>
>   http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/overview.html
>
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
>
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