Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon). Funnily enough my colleague Rupert Goodwins documented his - very similar - experiences and thoughts on Vista and Ubuntu late last night, just hours after I posted mine.
[October 21, 2007, 23:26]
ThinkPad X60 Rejuvenated!
Blog Gutsy Gibbon). ThinkPad X60 redux, thanks to the Gutsy Gibbon More likely, I shall slip Gibbon-convert Rupert Goodwins a pint of amber nectar and secure his Wi-Fi-fixing services. My poor old 512MB ThinkPad X60, which had a happy early life running...
[October 30, 2007, 8:54]
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:" Ubuntu isn't perfect - in some areas, it's still lagging behind XP.
[October 24, 2007, 21:14]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? Of those seven, three run XP, one runs Ubuntu 6.06, two are now on Ubuntu 7.10, and one is Vista. Then there's the work Ubuntu computer, on which I do just about everything when I'm in...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Startup time of Vista, fresh start or from "Hibernation" is VERY fast (way faster than any (regular) Linux distribution, and I always know the latest Ubuntu and OpenSuSE releases). That said, I'm quite happy with Vista!
[October 24, 2007, 6:45]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Well, in the true Linux spirit of being helpful to other Linux users, I would recommend that you install Automatix as soon as you have finished installing your (K)ubuntu distro. I am so scared of Windows these days, that I would not even consider...
[October 24, 2007, 10:25]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I'm not a professional techie but I'm comfortable and reasonably knowledgeable about computers and I'm just furious about the load of crap that is Vista. I recently bought a beautiful new Dell laptop - the XPS M1330 with all the bells and whistles...
[October 24, 2007, 17:11]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Reasons You Should Switch to Ubuntu: I'm glad the windows people aren't running the linux campaign: I haven't really been keeping track, but so far it seems that "Windows media center has a remote control!
[October 22, 2007, 21:34]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I use Ubuntu at home to run a mail server, a webserver, SQL server, file server and printer server, and on a laptop, in fact I'm using it now and I think it's fantastic, I will never pay for a copy of Windows for home use again.
[October 22, 2007, 20:53]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment On my computers at home I'm running XP on the desktop, Ubuntu 7.04 on the LAMP server and two laptops, one running OS X and one running Ubuntu 7.10. I like Ubuntu A LOT, it's so easy to install and configure.
[October 22, 2007, 17:02]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Microsoft's now promoting Vista with a campaign called "100 reasons why everyone's so speechless". I'm not sure whether that's because they're awestruck or mute with frustration. Here's the link if anyone wants to take a look: http://www.microsoft...
[October 22, 2007, 14:57]
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. If they can do it that fast, then I'm sure the original designers could have done it much faster. Sure, you won't be able to find many popular games out there being...
[October 25, 2007, 16:54]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I've been looking for a way to move away from Outlook in our predominantly Windows network, which to my limited research has proved quite difficult. More specifically, do you have a method of connecting to a M$ Exchange Server (in other words, not...
[October 23, 2007, 17:19]
