Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons.
Its main focus is on multimedia support, something similar to the Combined Community Codec Pack for Windows.
The most interesting feature is a full version of ffmpeg (including MP3 and x264 encoding).
More help on adding the repository and installing individual packages can be found in the Ubuntu online help.
Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron)
Should I upgrade to Ubuntu's latest release or should I wait?
At the moment, based on my own experience, there are more negative impressions than positive ones.
At the moment, based on my own experience, there are more negative impressions than positive ones.
Negative
- Most of my recommended Firefox add-ons don't work anylonger with the latest beta version of Firefox that gets installed automatically.
- OpenOffice 2.4 lacks the paste special dialog when I try to paste some text copied from web pages into a spreadsheet. Why was that removed?
- VirtualBox doesn't work anylonger. It has to be reinstalled, but I still have some trouble with its module.
- It takes an eternity to start from my external USB drive (it slows down completely, and needs about half a minute to spin-up again). With 7.10 (feisty) it only took a few seconds.
- My Windows partition doesn't show up in nautilus any longer as "Windows", but only as "xx.x GB Media", no matter what I try to get this configured.
- Compiz wooble windows work worse on Dual screens (almost imposible to drag maximized windows from one screen to the other).
Positive
- Some icons are much nicer.
- Slightly speep-up of the whole system, especially Firefox (maybe of some few add-ons only?)
- Handling of wireless nets is better, as well as the new keyring.
Wine
Wine is as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux.
Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine is a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unix.
Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing Windows software into Wine much easier. It is essentially a package management tool for Windows software on Linux systems, like Synaptic for Ubuntu.
winetricks is a script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries into your Wine setup to be able to run certain applications.
By default, Wine uses Windows colour scheme for the applications GUIs.
But this doesn't fit very well with Ubuntus colours.
Wine-doors already gives you the possibility to install a set of colors that fit well with Ubuntus desktop look, but In the Ubuntu forums, there's a good guide about how to change the colour scheme by hand.
Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine is a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unix.
Utilities for Wine
Wine-doors
Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing Windows software into Wine much easier. It is essentially a package management tool for Windows software on Linux systems, like Synaptic for Ubuntu.
winetricks
winetricks is a script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries into your Wine setup to be able to run certain applications.
Tips & Tricks
By default, Wine uses Windows colour scheme for the applications GUIs.
But this doesn't fit very well with Ubuntus colours.
Wine-doors already gives you the possibility to install a set of colors that fit well with Ubuntus desktop look, but In the Ubuntu forums, there's a good guide about how to change the colour scheme by hand.
AcetoneISO
AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let you mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things. Everything will be done inside a handy GUI.
It's installation is a bit tricky, so you can go and see my install instructions for Ubuntu.
It's installation is a bit tricky, so you can go and see my install instructions for Ubuntu.
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