Yes, I’m back nagging about Ubuntu again. This time, it’s both good and bad experience I have had this past 2 days. I finally get the whole system running as I want it to be. I’m going to briefly give a walk-around of how I achieved. What I did were:

1. Install LAMP
2. Install multimedia codec
3. True Typeface

Installing LAMP

Basically Ubuntu (or maybe all Linux distro) run very well with Internet. This is the one thing Windows and Mac cannot achieve. In Ubuntu, anything I want to install, I can simply go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. When Synaptic Package Manager window pop-up, go to Edit -> Mark Packages by Task…, and you’ll see LAMP server, check on it and click ok. Simple as that. Your localhost foldder will be on /var/www/.

Installing multimedia codec

Basically all you need to do is to open the files (mp3, avi, wmv you name it) then it will tell you that those are restrict (read: money) codec, however, it allow you to click on “Search” so it can installl the necessary codec for you.

True Typeface

Linux don’t go well with Windows and Mac? Think again, until today, some geek friends even tell me that Linux typeface is ugly. So what? You can change the typeface, you can even download font from DaFont and install it on your system and use it as the main typeface. I use Vista typeface for my system though, they seems nice

Here is the rough idea of what I thought about previously… I want a Vista user interface, with Macintosh system smoothness and Linux customisation. Am I greedy? Not really, this is just a purely consumer right of thinking

I’ve spend 2 days working purely with Ubuntu only. Working with it on one of the client website installation and one client theme adjustment on Ubuntu. Quite a nice machine I have to say. Heh, company is giving out free New York Yankees tickets tonight. I’m thinking about going or not. Because I just feel too happy in the same time don’t want to leave my Ubuntu at the moment

Now that I am experiencing a better in-depth of Ubuntu, I really recommend it if one want to ask for an alternative. Oh, did I mention about I’m blogging with it now? Not to mention, upon the installation, my network all run smoothly, even my Celcom broadband, which need driver for Windows, it just work with Ubuntu and Mac

Yes, I’m getting back Vista due to the capabilities of my laptop with Ubuntu Linux. Really, I LOVE Ubuntu and would like to use it for full time, but then, my laptop has to go without it. Well, of course there’s another plan to go. Which is… Desktop! Correct! I’m getting a desktop soon, since PC Fair is on coming weekend, I’ll be there and choose a low-end machine. And this time, this machine gonna be according to Ubuntu list

The thing about Ubuntu were…

1, Mouse as slow as Mac OS.
Probably because they have the same core based (UNIX), that’s why. But it’s easy to get use to it though, remember, I’m a Mac user for the pass 2 years

2, System is stable, software is not
Though I have to admit, the system itself is stable, very stable. Much better than Mac if you insist an answer. Doesn’t matter how FireFox crash on me, the system don’t blink at all. Mac do, Windows = Death Blue Screen/Blink (Refresh explorer.exe). Software that is giving me the biggest headache is Mozilla FireFox. Until today I’m still having problem with FireFox doesn’t matter which OS I’m with. Lagging on loading, stop process when the page load was error. Maybe I should take a walk in Mozilla forum instead. Now I have to bear with Google Chrome at the moment, which has a better interface and better performance of course

3, Better person with Linux
Well, as far as I know, I didn’t install any pirated software in my Ubuntu. This is good, at least it shows how a person changed from pirated user to non-pirate user

Anyway, let’s just see if my freelance works well this month. If it do, I might able to get another LCD monitor for my laptop too