What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

[Les Mikesell]

vincenzo romero wrote:
> Great thread ...
> 
> Quick question - for those of you who deployed Ubuntu for your home -
> ( i have played with it at work, indeed like a toy) ... does it have
> availability of most applications that teenagers would like?  ....
> itunes support?  etc....
> 
> My son's Apple G4 is a victim of logic board issues and soldering bad
> design - I want to just suck the info out into our NAS drive and just
> get a cheap laptop - wondering what linux version would be a good one
> to deploy for home use ..
> 
> any thoughts esp vis a vis mp3 support would be greatly appreciated ..
>

There's not a huge difference among linux distros in the applications 
that are available if you track them down.  Most won't include anything 
with patented or even questionable functionality in the base distro. 
Fedora won't publically admit that such stuff exists.  Ubuntu has it in 
repositories that easily be enabled.  There are several media players 
around but I don't think any will play drm-affected AAC files from the 
itunes store and playlist management probably won't quite match itunes.

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