[Wftl-lug] Newbie Question 2+

[Fabian Rodriguez]

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E Cardiel wrote:
> [...]
> 
> I played a video, one with Nelson Mandela which came on the install,
> and there was no sound. I get great sound on the XP platform, but
> apparently none with Ubuntu. Any ideas?
If it's not supported out-of-the box, your sound card may need some
tweaking. There are several starting points to debug sound problems.
The most common problem is your volume controls may be muted (!). Also
see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/?action=fullsearch&value=sound&titlesearch=Titles
> 
> Also, I've tried loading tar and gz files that I download onto an
> external onto Ubuntu, but can't get them to work. Any place for me
> to start learning little details like that? Philosophically I'd want
> to transfer completely to Linux at some point, but I'll have learn
> the details that make it work.
It's rather unusual you need to download anything from a website or
other sources to install an application. Ubuntu has a "package
manager" and other applications that handle installing, updating and
upgrading thousands of applications. I would strongly advise against
installing from tar.gz (also called "tarballs"), as it introduces
problems with updates, maintenance and dependencies as well. Good luck
with cleaning up when you decide to *undo* such installs. For more
details on how applications are usually installed under Ubuntu (which
mostly also applies to other distributions), see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/add-applications.html
> 
> On a more of a news type message - I'm setting up a community health
> office and I'm taking a bunch of old computers and I'm going to see
> if they run Ubuntu or Freespire. I know the Ubuntu runs off of the
> CD. Is there anything obvious I should look for before installing?
[...]
If the computers have low memory and / or hard disk resources, use the
Alternate CD install instead. Boot from it and perform a minimal
install, then choose an environment that will use minimal resources
(like XFCE, include in "Xubuntu Desktop"). Even on recent computers it
may make sense to install such a lean environment. See:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LowMemorySystems

Cheers,

Fabian

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