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Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Sam Ruby likes/uses Ubuntu too

Sam Ruby likes/uses Ubuntu too. I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for a few weeks now, and I'm not going back to Windows. I haven't even booted Windows up in a few weeks. For a bunch of people Ubuntu seems to be the first Linux distribution that really hits some kind of sweet spot that gets us to make the switch.

Update: Spoke too soon. I needed to play some WAV files that I couldn't get any program I had for Linux to play correctly, so I had to boot into Windows. Incidentally, the last day I'd used Windows before today was April 19.

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edited: 2005-05-05 02:42 (utc-4)

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Keith,

I haven't tried playing wav files, but after installing mplayer + w32codecs as described on this page:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats

I've been a happy puppy. I still boot Windows on my desktop at work, but haven't booted in to windows on my laptop since I reinstalled it a few weeks ago.

Ubuntu rocketh.

∴ Matt Croydon | 5-May-2005 9:38am est | http://postneo.com | #7591

Thanks Matt. Actually, I've installed that group of restricted codecs... at least I think I've installed all of them. I didn't know about the Marillat repository, and installed them manually from the mplayer site, following Kaffeine's directions actually.

I was able to get mplayer to play the wav files (nothing else would), but strangely, if I tried to seek mplayer would freak out and just play static from then on. I think these wavs aren't quite normal, but are compressed somehow... I think it's a fairly rare thing for wavs, so I wasn't too surprised when I couldn't play them.

∴ Keith | 5-May-2005 11:43am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #7592

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