Re: Universal sound card?

I demand that mike may or may not have written...

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Shoulda read this first, cause Ubuntu 8.04 is what I was downloading.
Here's what happened:

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My preferred course was to install on a 1GHZ laptop with 128MB of ram. Ram
expansion costs many times the cost of the laptop, so that ain't gonna
happen.

With that amount of memory, you should be considering the Xfce variant
(XUbuntu) rather than the "somewhat larger" GNOME or KDE variants. (Hint:
install xubuntu-desktop and remove ubuntu-desktop.)

I gotta say, I was impressed. Different user interface than I'm used to
with other linuxes, but after poking around, I got some of it to work. It
recognized my thumb drive.

That'd be part of your brain...? :-)

I could play an mp3. Wireless network wouldn't work and I couldn't figure
out how to configure it.

I'd go for /etc/network/interfaces and the relevant man pages, but that's
just me... might help if you say what chipset. Somebody probably has an idea
(Intel hardware's fine here, although there's a Belkin rt61 PCI card which
I'd like to get working).

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I tried installing a different music player. That went without a hitch,
although I thought 40MB of stuff downloaded was excessive for a music
player.

That probably includes a b(l)oatload of recommended packages, which I've
configured aptitude to leave well alone.

I tried installing a basic programming environment. Worked fine until
I tried to run the program. Bunch of stuff missing. So much for
dependency checking.

Specifics?

Haven't tried plugging in a usb webcam.

That might be fine; but if it's not supported by any driver in your current
kernel, check http://linuxtv.org/.

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Aragorn wrote:
Ubuntu does not come with KDE/Qt applications, and Kubuntu does not come
with Gnome/GTK applications.

This can be confusing for the newbie, so I would recommend a distribution
that supports both.

In Ubuntu's case: ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop...

(I'm sticking with Debian, though.)

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