the stinkin' blog

I continue to be amazed at the ease of use of Ubuntu. Of course, the changes made to support new hardware in the Linux kernel helps, but this project was too simple.

I had purchased a simple little Logitech notebook camera a few months back and recently upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04). I simply went to download Skype, chose Ubuntu 7.04+ then right clicked on it with Nautilus and installed it via Gdebi Package Installer. Gdebi suggested 3 other packages to install with it and after logging into Skype it simply WORKED. No tweaking, no fiddling, no manually installing other packages. IT JUST WORKED.

Now if you only knew my Skype ID you could skype me. I guess you will have to ask nicely.