Laptop for Church - Which Distro
I recently got my employer to donate a laptop to my church. However, our policy is to wipe the hard drives of all computers and laptop before they leave the firm. So, I need an operating system (Linux of course comes to mind first). However, at church we want to use this as our multi-media laptop hooked up to a projector during worship. So it needs good sound and video. I'm partial to Fedora Core (and version 5 was released a few days ago), but it can be limiting when it comes to mainstream multimedia. Do you have any suggestions for a more user-friendly multimedia distro that works well on a laptop? -- Thanks very much, Jon Moss jon.moss@cnonline.net -- Thanks very much, Jon Moss jon.moss@cnonline.net
On 4/3/06, Jon Moss <jon.moss@cnonline.net> wrote:
I recently got my employer to donate a laptop to my church. However, our policy is to wipe the hard drives of all computers and laptop before they leave the firm.
So, I need an operating system (Linux of course comes to mind first).
However, at church we want to use this as our multi-media laptop hooked up to a projector during worship. So it needs good sound and video.
I'm partial to Fedora Core (and version 5 was released a few days ago), but it can be limiting when it comes to mainstream multimedia.
Do you have any suggestions for a more user-friendly multimedia distro that works well on a laptop?
Kubuntu comes to mind. http://kubuntu.org and since it is Debian based Adept (GUI Package Manager) keeps the distro up-to-date very easily =).
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 09:48 -0500, Jon Moss wrote:
Do you have any suggestions for a more user-friendly multimedia distro that works well on a laptop?
Install Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 6's [http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight6] Gnome desktop and follow the instructions here for installing patented media codecs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats -- Jason D. Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com>
I'd try Ubuntu with THIS <http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/> Just read a review of it the other day -- the reviewer was quite impressed ... JOE On 4/3/06, Jon Moss <jon.moss@cnonline.net> wrote:
I recently got my employer to donate a laptop to my church. However, our policy is to wipe the hard drives of all computers and laptop before they leave the firm.
So, I need an operating system (Linux of course comes to mind first).
However, at church we want to use this as our multi-media laptop hooked up to a projector during worship. So it needs good sound and video.
I'm partial to Fedora Core (and version 5 was released a few days ago), but it can be limiting when it comes to mainstream multimedia.
Do you have any suggestions for a more user-friendly multimedia distro that works well on a laptop?
-- Thanks very much,
Jon Moss jon.moss@cnonline.net
-- Thanks very much,
Jon Moss jon.moss@cnonline.net
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've heard of this distro a lot lately. :) I'll go check it out. Thanks again - Jon
I'd try Ubuntu with THIS <http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/>
Just read a review of it the other day -- the reviewer was quite impressed ...
JOE
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