Linux for human beings

I finally gave up on Redhat and Fedora and went with Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn 7.04) for my home/personal laptop; to put it simply and elegantly (as Ubuntu would appreciate), it is excellent!

Well, maybe I am just biased by the fact that everything, including the wireless card on my fairly old Toshiba Satellite worked pretty flawlessly right off the bat. The interface is very well organized and even tough being a "Red Hat" user for a while now, most of the things just make more sense in Ubuntu world. The command line package management with "apt-get" is great to use. The unique concept of not having a "root" user login is something that takes a little getting used to, but the more you use it, the more it seems to make sense.

Even though a Live CD install gives you more or less everything you will need for a Desktop system, we are never completely satisfied, and those basic needs are taken care of by this UbuntuGuide.
Most of us will probably end up doing the following:
- Macromedia Flash plugin for Mozilla/Firefox
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
- sudo apt-get install build-essentials
- sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
- sudo apt-get install azureus
- The DVD codec for most DVDs seems to not have been included for legal reasons.
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 libxine1-ffmpeg
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

This is a very short list, but that is a good enough start for me to get working on a Desktop at home. I will try and post as many things as I figure out and build this system up. Right now, I am really happy with this "Linux for human beings".