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RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I've just realised that in my bitter rant about being stuck with Windows at work I haven't said what I think about 2Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon" Gibbon every time Vista is extremely slow, even on computers apparently designed for it.
[October 22, 2007, 21:00 by GhoulCubes]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My organization has a Windows infrastructure (mail, authentication, networking), nevertheless I had a dual boot desktop with Ubuntu that happily co-existed with the environment. As a matter of fact I stopped booting into Windows and it was all good.
[October 25, 2007, 5:30 by jarata]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I agree with what you say. I hope one day the final barriers that hold ubuntu/linux back will be overcome though. Games (good games) don't run on ubuntu. Popular software that is a must in this era of business computing is not available for use on...
[October 22, 2007, 5:06 by ninjavidual]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment You can run Ubuntu under XP without touching XP - see http://wubi-installer.org/ - but you can also wipe XP off your system kust by installing Ubuntu over it from the live CD. Got any data you want to keep?
[June 2, 2008, 10:07 by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I have Windows XP, but I want Ubuntu. What do I do? Do I have to remove Windows XP somehow?
[June 1, 2008, 22:44 by Fsunka]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment In reply to the few above that talk of only being able to play games on Windows. Sure, you won't be able to find many popular games out there being supported by game designers, but the ones you do find are GEMS.
[October 25, 2007, 16:54 by VulturEMaN]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Ubuntu IS Debian and Gnu. What's your point, caller? R
[October 25, 2007, 16:29 by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Ubuntu is made for noobs, if you want to compare with a real OS try any version of Debian GNU/Linux.
[October 25, 2007, 16:16 by 1000227886]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Not that I want to rag on Vista too much, but check this out! Swapping a video card? Updating a device driver? You might hit trouble.
[October 24, 2007, 17:09 by David Meyer]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment RE iPod: gtkPod is a free application that allows you to upload songs to your iPod, playlists and the rest of it.
[October 25, 2007, 3:11 by theSquid]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Before you do that (Automatix has been known to cause serious stability issues that people then go on to blame on Ubuntu), try one of the new features in Gutsy:" I'm away for a day, and that's the day I get /,ed and the talkbacks run wild.
[October 24, 2007, 21:14 by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment For years I have been skulking around in the shadows - getting Unix-type tools like Cygwin and Perl running on Windows, running copies of Solaris/x86 under VMware and setting up wacky third-party tools so that Windows servers can run batch jobs...
[October 24, 2007, 21:04 by undergronk]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Interesting discussion about the Windows software issue. A lot of enterprise sw is going over to a Java platform these days, which makes it platform-independent. The world does seem to be moving in that direction - and along with virtualisation (as...
[October 24, 2007, 18:55 by manek]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I have been testing Vista and various Linux distributions on my 6 PCs/laptops. I agree with your assessment. Here are my experiences.http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/dumping-vista-a-divorce-with-a-happy-ending-19844 http://blogs...
[October 24, 2007, 18:05 by madgreek]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Vista is horrible. I recently bought a beautiful new Dell laptop - the XPS M1330 with all the bells and whistles - running Vista (XP was not offered as an option). I had to travel to China with my new laptop and couldn't get online at all - though...
[October 24, 2007, 17:11 by sleers]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Before you do that (Automatix has been known to cause serious stability issues that people then go on to blame on Ubuntu), try one of the new features in Gutsy: (Sorry if this is a double post. Commenting after registering seems to not do what it...
[October 24, 2007, 17:05 by DylanMcCall]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment The thing I love the most about Linux distributions is the fact that pretty much all the software is free and open, and lots of it was written by people in their spare time who just needed to get something done (sure, many are paid by companies to...
[October 24, 2007, 15:15 by Ycros]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My biggest problem going all in to Linux is that I use a windows mobile smartphone for everything. It syncs to Outlook. I also have Itunes that sync to my IPOD. Are there good alternatives that do the same that are Linux platform?
[October 24, 2007, 14:50 by sooner1996]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I used to work in a corporation where I was initially given a Windows 2000 PC. And I was supposed to maintain an application which was "windows-based. I discovered quickly it was mostly made of badly programmed Python scripts that didn't actually...
[October 24, 2007, 11:14 by maathieu]
RE: Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment A nice article! I find it refreshing due to the fact that I too run many computers with different OS's side-to-side. As far as I'm concerned, there is more than enough objectivity in this article when it comes to how difficult and frustrating it is...
[October 24, 2007, 10:25 by wernerm]
