[SlugLUG] Goodbye dear sweet Sid. Hello Dapper Drake

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Wes Gray (smiths at alumni.cse.ucsc.edu):

> After 4 years of Gentoo I made the switch to Ubuntu last month for
> reasons similar to yours, and I've been quite happy.  There really
> isn't much to it.  Keep your old harddisk accessible because it really
> helps to just copy your old config files.  You'll probably want to run
> something like Easybuntu to get some of the more obvious tweaks taken
> care of for you.  Also check out http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper.

EasyUbuntu is a script to retrofit popular proprietary desktop
multimedia apps, patent-encumbered and proprietary codecs, DMCA-threatened
code (DVD code), proprietary binary-only ATI and Nvidia video drivers
for gamer punks  ;-> , Sun's proprietary Java JRE, proprietary and
open-source VoIP apps, and proprietary file-compression utilities.  It
also adds the Restricted, Universe, and PLF repositories to
/etc/apt/sources.list .

http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/

Automatix is very similar:
http://www.getautomatix.com/

There's more along those lines in the free-as-in-beer online sample
chapter of Rob Thomas's _Beginning Ubuntu_ book:
http://www.beginningubuntu.com/dapper_tips.html


However, I could have sworn this was a _server_ box, no?