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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]
Ubuntu prepares Gutsy Gibbon
News Ubuntu developers have taken the wraps off the fifth update to the upcoming "Gutsy Gibbon" version, a major release that will include significant additions to the Linux distribution. Developers have been releasing "Gutsy Gibbon" builds since May...
[August 24, 2007, 15:46]
Canonical releases Gutsy Gibbon
News Canonical has announced the release of Gutsy Gibbon, version 7.10 of its Ubuntu Linux operating system. Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, hopes that the release will spearhead Ubuntu's push into the server and other markets over the next...
[October 22, 2007, 12:36]
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]
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 looked.is "Because it's like a digital candy store. Puh-leeze. Bring up the Adept Manager in Ubuntu.
[October 22, 2007, 16:39]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Ah, Ogg. The trouble with Ogg is that it's not MP3. Hasn't got a critical mass of support: technically, it's fine, but if you're going to be listening to digital music online you can't do it by Ogg alone.
[October 22, 2007, 15:16]
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 Ah, a Ninja! I don't play games, so I can't comment on that area - except to say that the technicalities of the operating system are trivial details for games designers, with the exception of the graphics interface.
[October 22, 2007, 12:23]
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]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment >Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn't succeed all the time. Right on. Also, Open Office, which I got chummy with the way I never got chummy with Micro$oft Office, works a lot better (particularly with some power...
[October 24, 2007, 3:49]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
