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I have been using 4.1 (Kubuntu Intrepid) since alpha 3 as my main OS, mostly because my desktop system is currently dead, but as it is running so well on my older P4-M laptop I decided to use it every day. I don't find it particularly buggy, though hardcore KDE3 lovers will miss some of the, well, m...

To enable Universe and Multiverse: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu This will add the repositories containing mplayer, msttfcorefonts, etc Basically you are just uncommenting a couple of lines in your sources.list (clearly marked btw) and adding 'mulltiverse' to those 2 lines fo...

I just bought a cheap Canon LiDE 25 that seems to go for around $50 that works literally straight out of the box, no config files to edit or anything. As with most scanners, the panel buttons don't work but it seems to work well for the price overall for me

I agree on Automatix being rather unneeded for about 95% (at least) of the things that it offers. You have to edit your sources.list to install the script anyway, so why not add all the proper repos instead? I think the automatix guys should just set up a special repository with all the p2p apps etc...