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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]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have an unused Genuine Windows Advantage XP or Vista, and to reuse anything would be against the licence. Haven't had time to do any performance testing, but subjectively...
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News To be sure, desktop systems based on free software are coming along nicely," said analyst Glyn Moody, of Open .not least because people like [Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu] are working hard on making the user experience as good as Windows.
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
IBM Teams With Linux Firms For Microsoft-free PCs
News The deal with Canonical (the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat is designed to promote PCs running Linux alongside IBM business software, such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime.
[August 6, 2008, 12:21]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Ubuntu is fast, and is like a fresh breeze blowing through after my weeks of gazing at Vista, waiting for something to happen. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon). Funnily enough my colleague Rupert Goodwins...
[October 21, 2007, 23:26]
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 will not release Linux-based laptops in the UK due to a lack of demand, despite launching an Ubuntu-based machine in Asia.
[August 2, 2007, 11:40]
Apple's Leopard Lasts '30 Seconds' In Hack Contest
News Apple's Leopard has been hacked within 30 seconds using a flaw in Safari, with rival operating systems Ubuntu and Windows Vista so far remaining impenetrable in the CanSecWest PWN to Own competition. Competitors in the hacking race were allowed to...
[March 28, 2008, 8:22]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I did however get the games that were not running correctly under Vista to work fine under the WINE Windows Emulator included with Ubuntu! Ubuntu also runs faster, looks nicer than the new Vista Aero desktop, and uses FAR fewer resources.
[October 22, 2007, 23:27]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the disk, and both Vista and Ubuntu booted correctly, but when I tried to boot the XP partition, it actually started to boot Vista but then complained that the boot...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I am recommending Linux, specifically Ubuntu 7.10 to family and friends because we, the people that purchase new computers, should not have to pay so much money to have an operating system so advanced it.well you know the saying "so smart you are...
[October 22, 2007, 23:32]
Ubuntu On Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Having had so much success with Ubuntu on the older "test" laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110), and not expecting to want to try Vista on the newer Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 again anytime soon, I decided to try installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron...
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment and my £1600 carbon body sony vaio has never looked so sexy ;) a note: it would be nice if sony replied to my requests to make available a few more drivers, as some of the proprietary hardware in this laptop is clearly not supported by ubuntu.
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
Monolithic OS Upgrades Are So Over
Blog I am also waiting to get my hands on Ubuntu 7.10 to see how it deals with Centrino Pro and the other new bits of technology on my particular laptop that may make for some interesting driver hunts. But if I can find all the drivers I need for Ubuntu...
[September 25, 2007, 18:26]
Http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/release/ubuntu-7.10-dvd-i386.iso
Talkback Personally if I was setting up my company from scratch - I'd use Ubuntu, why would anyone on a tight budget risk installing/using pirated software, or spending £300-500 of your initial budget per machine on software which either way would be a...
[October 19, 2007, 19:05]
More Pleasant Surprises With Ubuntu
Blog If all of that works, I'll keep Ubuntu on that one, and swap the S2110 back to the Windows XP Pro disk.jw 3/6/2008 The Citrix Presentation Server Client is definitely much more stable on Ubuntu than it is on Windows.
[June 3, 2008, 11:01]
Dell's Linux PC Launch Founders
News Customers trying to view details of the systems via the Ubuntu link publicised by Dell were met with one of two messages: "We're sorry. He said the 530n will cost £399 and the 6400n will cost £329 and they will both come with the Ubuntu Linux...
[August 8, 2007, 18:25]
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. Before you do that (Automatix has been known to cause serious...
[October 24, 2007, 17:05]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I am now using Ubuntu 7.10 and will never go back to any Windows. I tried Ubuntu 7.04 and it was like a rocket. For the record, Ubuntu detected everything on my laptop and my scanner and digital camera and webcam all run fine too without any...
[October 23, 2007, 14:30]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There is one product that's worse than XP — and it's not Ubuntu, which does have its faults. Ubuntu is famed for its addiction to sudo, which is its attempt to get around the privileges paradox. That's one of the reasons that Windows has been such...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
