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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]
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]
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 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]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment So, since I have been playing around with linux distros for a while but never really got the feeling that they would convince me to switch and never look back, I took my laptop to the test and installed ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn).
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
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. This simply didn't happen with Windows XP, and that makes it all the more remarkable.
[October 23, 2007, 0:34]
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. My point is that the change is such that, combined...
[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. There is a reason Windows takes up a large amount of ram to do what it does. When a user does not have write access to Program Files, Windows will store...
[October 22, 2007, 13:32]
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]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Funnily enough my colleague Rupert Goodwins documented his - very similar - experiences and thoughts on Vista and Ubuntu late last night, just hours after I posted mine. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon).
[October 21, 2007, 23:26]
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]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment Take Ubuntu Studio out for a spin, then sit down and calculate what it would take - and go ahead, plot availability and functionality - of duplicating that warehouse of wank-o-rific wonder in Windows.
[May 30, 2007, 4:03]
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]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I wouldn't go near Vista but I do have a RHEL server in the basement that never needs touching from one month to the next - a quick VNC or ssh occasionally is all it takes -- and I've got Ubuntu in a VM on my desktop, and in a second partition on...
[October 24, 2007, 18:55]
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]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment Moley, I've just set up a dual-boot Vista/Ubuntu disk from scratch, and confirmed what I said previously. I loaded Vista first, then Ubuntu; GRUB recognized the Vista partition and set it up to boot, using the Vista boot loader, and added an entry...
[June 18, 2008, 14:14]
A Tale Of Two Vista Systems
Blog This once-cherished notebook has languished for a while, and is now awaiting a new lease of life courtesy of Ubuntu Linux. I've upgraded two systems to Windows Vista over the past few months, with vastly different results.
[August 22, 2007, 10:10]
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]
New Ubuntu Out Tomorrow
Blog With my Desktop system on it's knees due to a corrupt partition table (my fault for trying to repartition a drive while it was running vista at the time) I am planning to format and give Ubuntu a try.
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? Of those seven, three run XP, one runs Ubuntu 6.06, two are now on Ubuntu 7.10, and one is Vista. There, the computer has two partitions, and for historical reasons the ubuntu system...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
