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i am typing this from ubuntu & quite enjoy it tho i admit it has its issues...mostly with sound & some (i've read) issues w/multimedia.  its easy for beginners, better than dsl in this respect imo, and quite honestly its alot snappier than i thought it would be on this old laptop.

sorry dsl but your user friendliness just isn't there quite yet or i'd have given it to my g/f to use.  :(  oh well ... hopefully in a few more releases it will be good nuff she'll be able to use it as well as shes got on w/ubuntu.

aveline
I just got my Ubuntu CDs from their shipit page.  They came in a white envelope with a return address from The Netherlands.  I'll install it once I get my new laptop.

By the way, which codec for commercial DVDs is legal in the US?
Legal? There isn't any. Your government cares more about corporations than people, so they enacted something called the DMCA that effectively makes you a criminal if you play your DVDs on a Linux box. They'll change their mind in a few more years as we gain critical mass.

The package you'll need is libdvdcss2.
Unfortunately, I live in the abovementioned unfortunate banana republic. Corporations are considered "people" and the laws intended to protect the rights of individuals have been warped and twisted to protect the corporations.

I can't even begin to describe what the brain laundries have done to the humanity of individuals, other than to say that the phrase "American human" is an oxymoron; I can't advocate bigotry based on a person's nationality, but I can say that if you have limited time and energy, you might want to adjust your first impressions and decisions on who is worth interacting with accordingly.

Getting stabbed in the back for no reason by someone you have invested a lot of energy in  isn't fun.

Anywho, all I had to do to play DVDs in Simply Mepis was open command prompt, type in "apt-get --libdvdcss2" and there it was.

That was literally all I had to do other than a basic install, but I'll check out the suggestions for my Kubuntu box. I'm still glad I bumbled across DSL as a rank, raw newbie, even though I  have quite a bit to learn and some hardware to buy before I can give up newbie distros altogether.

I can't even remember the last time I had to boot into windows for anything, though; waste of hard drive space for my lappy, even though I've got a perfectly legal copy of '98. I never did do anything with the XP partition on my Slack box, either.

We get there, us newbies, but I guess we all take slightly different paths.
@aveline:
Well, you can't compare a 50MB distro with a full CD version... Naturally, you can be more "user friendly" if you don't have to squeeze your OS to fit on a business card CD. :)
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