“For the past two months, I have been working on a
beginners-level consumer book on Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn. It’s
been a bit hectic, but now I am about finished and ready to send
the last chapter to the publisher. (I’ll tell you the title later;
we’re still trying to pin it down.)“The final chapter (for me, not the book) is documenting the
Automatix2 installer for Ubuntu (as well as Debian 4.0, MEPIS, and
the rest of the *buntu flavors).“And while Automatix2 is really useful, there is one part of it
I have never liked: the fact that we have to use it to get DVD
playback capabilities…”