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Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I'm not a professional techie but I'm comfortable and reasonably knowledgeable about computers and I'm just furious about the load of crap that is Vista. Vista is horrible. I recently bought a beautiful new Dell laptop - the XPS M1330 with all the...
[October 24, 2007, 17:11]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Strangely, no one has pointed out that there is one important UI area where Vista is far and away more advanced and capable than either XP, Linux, or even Mac OS: the tablet PC platform. Vista is the only OS for PC's (including Macs) that has...
[October 24, 2007, 4:58]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment In reply to the few above that talk of only being able to play games on Windows. Freespace 2, a popular vote for Sim Game of the Year in 1999, was made open-source a while back, and within a year, a crack team of 6-7 people who knew nothing of the...
[October 25, 2007, 16:54]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My organization has a Windows infrastructure (mail, authentication, networking), nevertheless I had a dual boot desktop with Ubuntu that happily co-existed with the environment. As a matter of fact I stopped booting into Windows and it was all good.
[October 25, 2007, 5:30]
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 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. I discovered quickly it was mostly made of badly programmed Python scripts that didn't...
[October 24, 2007, 11:14]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Like you Rupert, I find myself in a mixed environment of various version of Windows (mainly XPs) and Linux (mainly RHELs and Ubuntus). While I agree on your take on Ubuntus ease of use, I have one major issue with it (on my Dell D420 laptop):
[October 24, 2007, 9:47]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I've been looking for a way to move away from Outlook in our predominantly Windows network, which to my limited research has proved quite difficult. More specifically, do you have a method of connecting to a M$ Exchange Server (in other words, not...
[October 23, 2007, 17:19]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Reasons You Should Switch to Ubuntu: I haven't really been keeping track, but so far it seems that "Windows media center has a remote control! I'm glad the windows people aren't running the linux campaign:
[October 22, 2007, 21:34]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I use Ubuntu at home to run a mail server, a webserver, SQL server, file server and printer server, and on a laptop, in fact I'm using it now and I think it's fantastic, I will never pay for a copy of Windows for home use again.
[October 22, 2007, 20:53]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment If you're dependent on specialist software that will only run on one platform, then there's not much you can do about that - and I'd expect the cost of that software to dwarf any concerns about the Windows tax.
[October 22, 2007, 18:44]
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 On my computers at home I'm running XP on the desktop, Ubuntu 7.04 on the LAMP server and two laptops, one running OS X and one running Ubuntu 7.10. I like Ubuntu A LOT, it's so easy to install and configure.
[October 22, 2007, 17:02]
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]
ThinkPad X60 Rejuvenated!
Blog More likely, I shall slip Gibbon-convert Rupert Goodwins a pint of amber nectar and secure his Wi-Fi-fixing services. Gutsy Gibbon). ThinkPad X60 redux, thanks to the Gutsy Gibbon My poor old 512MB ThinkPad X60, which had a happy early life running...
[October 30, 2007, 8:54]
Photos: Ubuntu 7.10 review
Reviews Shown here is the initial log-on screen of 7.10, also called 'Gutsy Gibbon', which Ubuntu-sponsor Canonical plans to release in final form on 18 October. If Gutsy Gibbon encounters a media file type it can't play by default, a dialogue box will pop...
[October 18, 2007, 8:36]
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]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My hardware purchase left me with an extra hard drive, so I decided to install the beta version of Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon on the second one. I did however get the games that were not running correctly under Vista to work fine under the WINE Windows...
[October 22, 2007, 23:27]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I am upgrading to 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon while I type (yes windows users, a whole new operating system installing WHILE I type! 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...
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
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. I am so scared of Windows these days, that I would not even consider...
[October 24, 2007, 10:25]
