{"id":493,"date":"2007-03-21T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/21\/linux-is-going-to-get-friendlier-real-soon-now"},"modified":"2007-03-21T06:33:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T11:33:47","slug":"linux-is-going-to-get-friendlier-real-soon-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/21\/linux-is-going-to-get-friendlier-real-soon-now","title":{"rendered":"Linux is going to get friendlier, real soon now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is. Look what gems I found today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu Feisty will have a cool <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/CommandNotFoundMagic\">command-not-found<\/a> package. It will tell you where to find said application, and how to install it. Look at the examples in <a href=\"http:\/\/popey.com\/command_not_found\">Alan Pope&#8217;s blog entry<\/a>. (apparently, this is in Edgy)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluendo.com\/\">Fluendo<\/a> has got some amazing codecs, and its worth supporting them by buying it. Fedora 7, instead of complaining of a missing codec everytime you try to play something, will have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.0xdeadbeef.com\/weblog\/?p=270\">codec buddy<\/a>, according to Chris Blizzard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this means great things for Linux users. And new Linux users. Think about how easy all this will be, for the average home user? They follow something online, they hit up the command line, and they get helped. Even better if they don&#8217;t have to hit up the command line, just pop the DVD in, Totem sees it, it doesn&#8217;t have the correct codec, and voila, codec buddy helps you go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.fluendo.com\/\">Fluendo store<\/a>, selecting exactly what you need. Have credit card handy, and you&#8217;re ready to watch your content.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping in mind, that your mother will not want to know the difference between Windows Media or MPEG2. She&#8217;ll just want it to work! (In fact, after being spoiled by OS X for over 1.5 years, I too just want things to work.) Of course now, I do hope that both the Linux community distribution behemoths <i><b>share<\/b><\/i> these cool features (or should I say, <i><b>adapt from each other<\/b><\/i>). <\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/end%20user\" rel=\"tag\">end user<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/friendly\" rel=\"tag\">friendly<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/command-not-found\" rel=\"tag\">command-not-found<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/codec%20buddy\" rel=\"tag\">codec buddy<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fluendo\" rel=\"tag\">fluendo<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/codecs\" rel=\"tag\">codecs<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/usability\" rel=\"tag\">usability<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Linux%20is%20going%20to%20get%20friendlier%2C%20real%20soon%20now&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F03%2F21%2Flinux-is-going-to-get-friendlier-real-soon-now&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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