“I started using Ubuntu Breezy ver 5.10 a month back on my
machine. Prior to that I was exclusively into Fedora. What drew me
to Ubuntu was the huge number of packages in its repositories
including softwares which I find useful on a day-to-day basis like
Tomboy which I had to compile from source in Fedora. But the Ubuntu
CD comes with the base packages which support only open file
formats. So if you want support for proprietary file formats like
mp3 and quicktime support as well as install softwares not included
on the CD, then you have to do some work…”
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