aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Friday, September 01, 2006

Smooth the Ubuntu install

A letter to Wired from Kristoffer Nilaus Olsen:

I have [Ubuntu] installed on my ancient Thinkpad Celeron 450Mhz, which I use as my kitchen computer (for recipes and listening to music while cooking) and your story pretty accurately covers my experiences. One thing you might want to cover in the future is the Automatix script, which enables users to install a variety of needed extra functionality in Linux—including the much vaunted multimedia codecs—with the click of a few buttons from a graphical user interface. It’s really made it much simpler to make Ubuntu a proper multimedia system and then some.

Here’s the Wired story he was writing about. Here’s the Automatix Wiki.