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[Archibald Platypus <idi0tf0wl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you trying only to include open source alternatives? I noticed you
listed Ekiga without mentioning that Skype actually has a native Linux
client.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Barry Drake <b.drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Those of you on the advertising list will know that Danté Ashton and I
> have been trying to research easy entry into Ubuntu with the mindset of
> the average Windows user.  Please consider helping with this research.
> The aim is to pick a particular 'need' and to follow through whether
> this need can be met under Ubuntu, how easily and how successfully.
> This use should ideally be one that your Windows friend would have, and
> preferably a need that you know little about.
>
> First take a look at:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/switching/C/applications-equivalents.html
>
> This page may need revision, and certainly needs extending.
>
> Rules for research: any necessary packages to be easily and quickly
> installed without using the commandline.  The preference would be to use
> the Ubuntu Software Centre.  If you have a way of meeting the need, but
> this requires commandline or other methods, please submit this anyway -
> Ubuntu could incorporate a simple workaround.  Any scripts or code you
> write to make things work could be posted.  Stuff like that could easily
> be part of a package and run on installation without the user being in
> any way aware of the complexity.
>
> When you have done the research, please report on how easy it was to
> access the information and provide links if a good method is suggested
> online somewhere.
>
> So far, I have researched iPod and iTunes.  I have also explored
> Logos/Libronix as a colleague has over £1000 worth of books in that
> format.  I have to report that Ubuntu is not for him.  I have e-mailed
> Logos and received a reply stating that at present they do not have
> plans to support our platform.  The same was true of Mac until many many
> Mac users complained to Logos!  A niche area, but maybe you'd like to
> aid that cause?
>
> I also did a webcam exercise with my sister.  The task was dead easy for
> me - but incredibly daunting for my sister and it need not have been!
> That one hardly wants any tweaking but it does need tweaking and
> properly documenting.
>
> Researching iTunes, I found an official Ubuntu document that said iTunes
> would install under PlayOnLinux.  I tested this.  Only iTunes 10.6 can
> be made to work, and it installs crippled.  The CD rip and burn
> facilities don't work.  It is official policy that we do not include
> methods based on Wine or any of its derivatives as these, however good,
> are not for the Ubuntu newbie.
>
> The result of the above is that iTunes can be perfectly replaced and
> iPods work just fine under Ubuntu with several apps BUT the Apple
> download store cannot be accessed.  Most of you knew that already - I
> was working in the dark and discovered how hard it was to get
> information  that a newbie could follow.
>
> So - lay aside your geekiness for a time, imagine you're a newbie and
> volunteer to research a particular need.  Please state the one you are
> thinking of pursuing so we don't duplicate the effort.  If there's a
> good response, maybe someone who has admin access to the Canonical or
> Ubuntu website can set up a Wiki for us to report back on?
>
> Hope I'm not treading on any Canonical toes here ....  apologies in
> advance if I am.
>
> Regards,                Barry Drake.
> --
> What do you see when you use your Computer? Same old thing?
> ...There IS a Better Way!  Ubuntu!
>
>
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