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Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Hey, I'm not sore about the hardware, I actually find a lot to like in WIndows XP, I'm not holding my breath for Leopard, and I did remove enough bloatware to keep a liposuctionist busy for a week. I did install a couple of games and they worked a...
[October 22, 2007, 21:56]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment So with Vista Microsoft took a much larger effort towards system access and security. Ya know, all of these "I'm switching to Linux" articles are find and dandy but you have to take into a consideration of a number of things.
[October 22, 2007, 13:32]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment There is probably one other thing, after vista has booted a few times it tries to get itself sorted, whenever you aren't using the cpu or ram you aren't using, its usually looking at it self, seeing what it can do to speed up, in fact after a...
[October 22, 2007, 14:41]
New Directions - Ubuntu
Blog Since I always do this sort of thing by swapping disks, and I have a disk for that laptop which I had previously loaded with Vista Home Premium (and given up on, even before I got the S6510), I could reclaim that disk for Ubuntu and my XP Pro disk...
[May 21, 2008, 16:20]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment It may be also possible to install the OS's in a different order and then recover the Vista boot loader, for instance, using a late Vista Beta installation disk or a borrowed retail or OEM Vista installation disk, this I have also done in order to...
[June 18, 2008, 9:26]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon). Ubuntu is fast, and is like a fresh breeze blowing through after my weeks of gazing at Vista, waiting for something to happen. Funnily enough my colleague Rupert Goodwins...
[October 21, 2007, 23:26]
Vista 'really Good, Really' Says MS. 'Like We Care?' Says World
Blog Comment Perhaps I'll nab the next big-welly review box that comes through that's got Vista on, and give it a good thrashing for a while in daily use: I've spent most of my time this year on Ubuntu, which certainly has its own annoyances but has been...
[July 9, 2008, 14:58]
Gartner: Ignore Vista Until 2008
Talkback Currently I'm trying (and liking) the Debian-based (K)Ubuntu (free of charge, tons of software. See http://www.ubuntu.com/). I think that Vista will be to XP what ME was to 98SE: more eyecandy while functionality is not much increased (DRM anyone?
[November 12, 2005, 8:23]
Might As Well Just Use XP Or Linux With Beryl
Talkback No thanks, XP does it fine and I'm looking more and more of rolling out Ubuntu (possibly with Beryl) in my company! I can not justify buying extra hardware, making sure the system will be able to run Vista for what exactly?
[August 19, 2007, 11:35]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Bring up the Adept Manager in Ubuntu. Microsoft's now promoting Vista with a campaign called "100 reasons why everyone's so speechless". Running Vista is like being in a candy store that only sells black liquorice (I _hate_ black liquorice) at...
[October 22, 2007, 16:39]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Of those seven, three run XP, one runs Ubuntu 6.06, two are now on Ubuntu 7.10, and one is Vista. Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? My Ubuntu boxes, I love. There, the computer has two partitions, and for historical...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog I've been meaning to try VirtualBox, the free x86 virtualisation product from InnoTek, and a comment to my previous Vista/Ubuntu post has pushed me into it. Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have an unused...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
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]
ThinkPad X60 Rejuvenated!
Blog My poor old 512MB ThinkPad X60, which had a happy early life running Windows XP but then suffered a crippling attack of Windows Vista, has now been restored — almost — to productive use thanks to a timely install of Ubuntu 7.10 (a.k.a.
[October 30, 2007, 8:54]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog One of the more amusing permutations was when I first installed Vista, then copied XP into the next partition, and finally installed Ubuntu into the third partition. Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
I Will Blog, Despite Vista's Best Efforts
Blog I could easily reboot into Ubuntu, and in fact was abot to so so, but something occurred to me. Until Microsoft truly gets that, I'll be sticking Ubuntu - or XP as a backup if I really need to run Windows.
[March 20, 2008, 20:56]
Midnight On La Rambla
Blog Biggest problems are battery life and screen size - I do have a much sleeker Vaio in reserve, but I can't get the HSDPA modem to play with Vista (it took about ten minutes of rather obscure hackery to make it work with Ubuntu, which is ten minutes...
[February 10, 2008, 23:50]
OpenSUSE 11.0 First Impressions
Blog As I told my brother (who is still using XP, and has sworn not to touch Vista until Hell freezes over), in many cases the average user who is accustomed to Windows XP would have no more trouble changing to Linux (openSUSE or Ubuntu) than they...
[June 20, 2008, 12:45]
Vista SP1 Installed, Working OK So Far
Blog I have also installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron), and Mandriva Spring 2008, so I have a three-way boot selection now. The installation of Vista SP1 completed normally on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to be running normally for the time being.
[August 6, 2008, 11:12]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I have to agree - I've been really enjoying Ubuntu since i moved over. It can be annoying to uninstall stuff from Ubuntu. It's a bit slower than XP (noticeably, but not irritatingly) at times, but given that my machine won't touch Vista, but is...
[October 24, 2007, 4:46]
