Sunday, February 24, 2008

Install Ubuntu from Windows

It looks like the next version of Ubuntu (8.04) will allow users to install Ubuntu from Windows. Arstechnica has some screen shots of the new installer.

I hope this gets more people to start using linux.

While I like this change and I think Ubuntu, Novel (Opensuse), Linux Mint, and many others have great distribution, I hope someone begins to improve the multimedia plugins for Firefox. While Mplayer does a good job, it still doesn't allow me to fast forward like the windows media player plugin for the Windows version of Firefox. I watch cycling on the internet and frequently when I watch an archived (ie not live) race, I use Windows because I can fast forward or rewind much easier. I don't boot into Windows often, but that is the most common reason.

That's my two cents about what I would like to see improved.

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