Acer: 'No UK Demand' For Linux Laptops
News The Acer Aspire 5710Z has gone on sale in Singapore pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows. Acer models] with Ubuntu pre-loaded are available at the factory level. Acer will not release Linux-based laptops in the UK due to a lack of demand...
[August 2, 2007, 11:40]
More Pleasant Surprises With Ubuntu
Blog With Ubuntu, I was very skeptical when I loaded it, I honestly expected to have it running for a day or so, just to see what worked and what didn't. If all of that works, I'll keep Ubuntu on that one, and swap the S2110 back to the Windows XP Pro...
[June 3, 2008, 11:01]
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? Having used Ubuntu for the best part of a year, I'm a fan.
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Open Office To The Rescue
Blog I gave them the Lifebook S2110, running Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org, and they worked perfectly happily on it all evening. Because I don't work with Windows much any more, the last time I loaded Vista on this laptop I didn't bother loading most of the...
[September 26, 2008, 12:02]
Acer Clarifies Position On Linux PCs
News In contrast with Acer's assertion that it does offer an Ubuntu pre-installation to retailers at the factory level, the salesperson added that Acer had shipped the laptops to Memory World "without anything; without any software loaded".
[August 2, 2007, 17:25]
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]
Wireless Networking - Linksys WRT350N And Intel 4965AGN
Blog But now I have found that it will also not connect when I am running Ubuntu, Mandriva or Fedora Linux. The latest Intel drivers are loaded on both XP and Vista I assumed that this was just some sort of weird Vista bug, of course.
[November 12, 2008, 7:35]
Can Linux Replace Windows - Maybe!
Blog I loaded Ubuntu Linux on my test laptop a couple of weeks ago more or less on a lark, thinking I would just see for myself what the current state of the Linux world is today. In fact as I said to my brother yesterday evening, a typical Windows XP...
[July 18, 2008, 14:58]
Michael Dell Chooses Linux At Home
News It emerged on Thursday that the Dell chief is using a Precision M90, loaded with the just-released version of Ubuntu called Feisty Fawn. Ubuntu. But it seems Michael Dell still favours Microsoft software for gaming and travelling, and even then he...
[April 19, 2007, 15:49]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Because it's probaly pre-loaded with dozens of useless 3rd party junk the manufacturer added. Vista will probably never be faster than most distros of Linux but it should run much faster on a clean install without a bunch of services and apps the...
[October 22, 2007, 16:59]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My son loaded a Win2k box on a Ubuntu desktop using the Ubuntu Virtualbox code. Well for those of you running on Windows platforms (or even MAC's) who are interested in getting your feet wet with Ubuntu to see what all the fuss is about, then I...
[October 23, 2007, 8:12]
