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Apple's Leopard Lasts '30 Seconds' In Hack Contest
News Competitors in the hacking race were allowed to choose either a Sony laptop running Ubuntu 7.10, a Fujitsu laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 or a MacBook Air running OS X 10.5.2. Apple's Leopard has been hacked within 30 seconds using a flaw in...
[March 28, 2008, 8:22]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment For the record, Ubuntu detected everything on my laptop and my scanner and digital camera and webcam all run fine too without any drivers that aren't already there in Linux. I am now using Ubuntu 7.10 and will never go back to any Windows.
[October 23, 2007, 14:30]
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 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]
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]
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? Then there's the work Ubuntu computer, on which I do just about everything when I'm in...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
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). The first thing I did of course was turn almost all visual effects...
[October 24, 2007, 6:45]
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]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog So I decided to put Ubuntu on the Vista dual-core Centrino laptop. 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.
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
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]
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. When I am running Windows XP Professional on the laptop, it connects to the Linksys router just fine.
[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. If you have a laptop with slots for digital camera flash cards, Ubuntu...
[July 18, 2008, 14:58]
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]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Ubuntu generally works just fine on my Santa Rosa laptop. 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...
[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]
Acer Clarifies Position On Linux PCs
News On Tuesday ZDNet.co.uk reported that a laptop — the Aspire 5710Z — was being advertised in Singapore with Ubuntu, a Linux distribution, as its operating system. Explaining that the 5710Z was a "budget" model (priced at 999 Singaporean dollars, or...
[August 2, 2007, 17:25]
I Will Blog, Despite Vista's Best Efforts
Blog Until Microsoft truly gets that, I'll be sticking Ubuntu - or XP as a backup if I really need to run Windows. I could easily reboot into Ubuntu, and in fact was abot to so so, but something occurred to me.
[March 20, 2008, 20:56]
OpenSUSE 11.0 First Impressions
Blog I do, however, think that these latest versions of either openSUSE or Ubuntu would be excellent alternatives for most ordinary PC users, including laptop users, and that is a huge step forward for Linux in my experience.
[June 20, 2008, 12:45]
More Pleasant Surprises With Ubuntu
Blog The Citrix Presentation Server Client is definitely much more stable on Ubuntu than it is on Windows. 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
[June 3, 2008, 11:01]
Time To Lap Up Linux
Leader Some of that is due to Ubuntu's user-centric support structure and the obvious maturity of the product: a more important factor is the rise of the laptop. Intel has said it is working with Ubuntu and Red Flag Linux developers to make sure...
[May 2, 2007, 15:34]
