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Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment You must have a really crappy computer because I am running Vista in a 3800 X2 with a gig of ddr 400 and Vista runs great. I was even happy that I could run Command and Conquer 3 on ultimate settings since I heard that there is a slight framerate...
[October 22, 2007, 14:23]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog Comment Actually my Gutsy Gibbon is strutting its stuff (very effectively) on a VMWare VM on top of Vista rather than XP. I have another XP machine running as a GoToMyPC session in another window. Got to fill up that 30in.screen somehow you know.
[October 23, 2007, 23:00]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment But the clear fact is that a tablet enabled laptop running Vista is far more flexible and natural to use than even an Apple laptop. Strangely, no one has pointed out that there is one important UI area where Vista is far and away more advanced and...
[October 24, 2007, 4:58]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment There is a clear story emerging here of people seem to be - as I was - genuinely surprised by their relative experiences running Vista and a Linux distribution. To El Jefe: You're right, mistyping MB for GB is inexcusable, and shows the perils of...
[October 23, 2007, 0:34]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment As a matter of fact, my old clunker PC is now running Kubuntu with only 256M and a 1.7GHz processor and beats the pants off of Vista on a dual core processor with a Gig of memory. I have had the same experience as I posted on my blog (http://blogs...
[October 26, 2007, 2:51]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Admittedly, I'm still running 7.04, i don't think the Exchange server worked until i updated (i guess i should keep on those updates huh? Wow you are correct! I swear MS Exchange Server wasn't working up until recently.
[October 24, 2007, 0:35]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment The wild card here is virtualisation: you can easily run Windows in a virtual box under Ubuntu, so you can have quite a lot of your organisation running open source and limit your spending on proprietary licences to just those bits that absolutely...
[October 22, 2007, 17:38]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Reasons You Should Switch to Ubuntu: I'm glad the windows people aren't running the linux campaign: I started reading those 100 Microsoft reasons. I haven't really been keeping track, but so far it seems that "Windows media center has a remote...
[October 22, 2007, 21:34]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I spent a while "porting" this thing to Linux, and now the whole team is happy using Ubuntu/Debian/[insert your favorite distro here] instead of Windows. The "essential in-house piece of software running on windows" is more than often something...
[October 24, 2007, 11:14]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment 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 suggest you use a desktop virtualisation solution.
[October 23, 2007, 8:12]
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 Admittedly, I'm still running 7.04, i don't think the Exchange server worked until i updated (i guess i should keep on those updates huh? Wow you are correct! I swear MS Exchange Server wasn't working up until recently.
[October 23, 2007, 22:44]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment It works, but it's a bit flakey (or at least, the version I was running under 7.04 was). I don't much like Evolution, I have to say. The password authentication box pops up but won't accept input for a moment or two, and a few times the package has...
[October 23, 2007, 23:59]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Bring up the Adept Manager in Ubuntu. Running Vista is like being in a candy store that only sells black liquorice (I _hate_ black liquorice) at exorbitant prices. Microsoft's now promoting Vista with a campaign called "100 reasons why everyone's...
[October 22, 2007, 16:39]
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]
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). I'm running Linux (OpenSuSE 10.3 in my case) in a VMware virtual...
[October 24, 2007, 6:45]
Vista - Still Running And Stable After Six Weeks
Blog This blog entry is being written on Ubuntu, by the way.jw 21/9/2008 I think that I can now say that they have indeed done that, as Vista is still running pretty nicely, and hasn't shown any of the instability or corruption that made me give up on...
[September 21, 2008, 8:18]
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]
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]
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]
