[LBo] Difference Between Ubuntu Desktop and Server?

[James Allen]

On 10/17/06, lazylogic <lazylogic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Understand that the official "Debian users" does not install stuffs that
> are non-free .......... and I respected that.
> But if I were to install it as my OS, I have to be realistic as I have only
> one pc the whole family use. This will mean stuffs like flash, java, mp3
> etc.

>From my experience, many Debian users install non-free packages.

>
> Did you have these extras installed?
> If yes, what are the repositories that you've used?
> Maybe you (everyone/anyone) would share the /etc/apt/sources.list  :-)

I have them all installed. I use Debian Sarge though. As I understand
it, many are not available from Debian with etch or sid. You have to
search google.

Just make sure you have the contrib and non-free on the end of the
appropriate line in the sources.list file.
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free

For java I installed the Sun version. It has a bin installer where all
you have to do is answer a few questions and (usually accept the
defaults).

I use firefox and they have in their FAQ how to install.

With Sarge I had mp3's playing right after install.

Two sites worth looking at are http://www.backports.org and
http://www.debian-unofficial.org/

James