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Libraries Not Actually A Failure
Talkback Ubuntu was not chosen as the desktop for a number of reasons, all of which were justified by facts, many of the people who have criticised the chouce of SuSE over Ubuntu clearly either support Ubuntu commercially or are involved in some other way...
[November 28, 2006, 16:03]
Libraries Not Actually A Failure
Talkback Ubuntu was not chosen as the desktop for a number of reasons, all of which were justified by facts, many of the people who have criticised the chouce of SuSE over Ubuntu clearly either support Ubuntu commercially or are involved in some other way...
[November 28, 2006, 14:32]
Dell Chooses Ubuntu For Linux PCs
News Dell is trying a second time to sell personal computers with Linux preinstalled, this time using the up-and-coming Ubuntu version of the open-source operating system. I think you will find Dell, over time, also offering Ubuntu across its server...
[May 1, 2007, 15:44]
Ubuntu's Latest Linux Will Help Debug Crashes
News Canonical, which began its Ubuntu push with an emphasis on desktop computers, is the latest in a long line of contenders that have attracted only a small fraction of users away from dominant Microsoft.
[April 12, 2007, 8:38]
SFF PCs
Blog On such slow computers it took many hours to get Ubuntu installed on magnesium alone. It runs surprisingly quickly, but to make it easier for me to maintain I decided to install Ubuntu. However I found it to be quite slow, so I followed a guide for...
[July 10, 2008, 21:55]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Ubuntu has the slickest installation I have yet found in any OS. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon). And now onto Ubuntu. Ubuntu makes it supremely easy to install extra software packages.
[October 21, 2007, 23:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Stop Bugging Me Bill Windows XP, Genuine Ubuntu, and a Genuine Dell So let's fast forward two hours - two mind-numbing, tear-strewn hours - to the point that I've booted into the Ubuntu live disc which knows about the hard disk, knows about the...
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
More Success With Mandriva
Blog I was able to get it working on Ubuntu, but that wasn't quite fair - I had already spent a good bit of time figuring that out before with the test laptop. It was dead easy on Mandriva, and honestly it looked like what I had imagined it should look...
[July 11, 2008, 14:28]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
Talkback Since when is Linux not tested, the following provide fully tested Desktops: SUSE , Xandros, Redhat, Ubuntu, Linspire, Mandriva and Gentoo.in addition to the £39 per computer, you will be required to pay all of the related shipping and insurance...
[June 27, 2006, 16:34]
Vista 'really Good, Really' Says MS. 'Like We Care?' Says World
Blog Comment The rest of us have either moved on to OSX, or RHEL or Ubuntu (I have ALL of them! I spend as much time supporting one vista laptop with their maddening concept of wifi access as the 8 XP and 24 OSX computers in the house, some as old as 7yrs old...
[July 9, 2008, 14:43]
XP SP3 Problems
Talkback I have installed Ubuntu on my XP SP3 computer using Wubi (installs in the Windows partion without needing to partition the disk) and it runs very nicely. On balance, it seems that this might be linked to having originally used OEM installation...
[May 13, 2008, 9:09]
Dell Unveils Low-cost PCs For Emerging Markets
News The notebooks are available in 14.1-inch and 15.6-inch sizes, and come with Intel Celeron or Core 2 Duo processors, and Ubuntu Linux or Windows Vista. The desktops come with Intel Atom, Celeron or Pentium processors, and Ubuntu or Vista.
[August 28, 2008, 11:54]
2007: The Year In Software
News With the Christmas success of inexpensive mobile computers such as the Asus Eee PC — which comes with open-source software, and none from Microsoft — and the early successes of Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Steve Ballmer will have much to...
[December 28, 2007, 15:11]
Whats Beyond Your Windows?
Blog Comment Download a copy of Ubuntu or Kubuntu and give it a shot.its free and honestly its waiting for you. If your know zero about computer give Ubuntu a try, if you know a bit and like to get in and customize your system a bit more, then give Kubuntu a try.
[July 18, 2008, 13:42]
Fedora To Get PowerPC Support
News The effort faces competition not just from other Linux versions such as Canonical's Ubuntu, but also from Sun's OpenSolaris project. Red Hat also plans a version for Power chips, such as the PowerPC used in Apple's G5 computers and the Power5 used...
[February 15, 2005, 12:05]
Gartner: Ignore Vista Until 2008
Talkback In the same machine, pop in the ubuntu cd, and almost everything works. So, (to repeat many of the messages posted earlier) it is not that windows supports hardware, but hardware (manufacturers) support windows, bc.it has far more consumers, who...
[November 21, 2005, 19:06]
Dell: Ubuntu PCs Still Available
News Dell originally offered two computers with Ubuntu pre-installed: the Inspiron 6400n for £329 and the 530n for £399. For a short time [on Tuesday], the link to the Inspiron 6400n was broken on the Dell UK Ubuntu page," wrote Menchaca on Dell's...
[November 9, 2007, 10:57]
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 It boils down to one abiding impression: Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn't succeed all the time. There, the computer has two partitions, and for historical reasons the ubuntu system lives on a small 3GB sliver of...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Nubuntu? Schmubuntu!
Blog Comment Seriously, there are so many programs that ship with ubuntu that are far better than notepad++ with no configuration necessary (emacs for instance). This article confuses me because I have been using ubuntu for over six months now without the need...
[May 6, 2008, 9:34]
