On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 09:10 +1300, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:

kino is in the ubuntu repositories. I am strongly averse to the
'download binaries from random websites' way of installing software.
Imho it's the Windows way of doing things and if it becomes normal
practise in the Linux world, it will eventually lead to Linux suffering
the kind of spyware issues that Windows suffers from.

I strongly agree with Bruce.

It also becomes a support issue as well. While it's cool to know how to extract the tar ball and compile it, how do you keep it up to date ?, maybe if it's one package you're familiar with, but what if you had a whole lot of packages ? you can lose track very easily and quickly.

Also James is not 100% familiar with Linux so probably best to keep to
what's easily installed from repos.

Even for advanced user, using the repositories is definitely the way to go.


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