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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]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment And of course, Ctr+Alt+D does the same in ubuntu.o) It works in Vista and XP, and there's no need to Win+Shift+D to bring your windows back (like Win+Shift+U)! Win+D - Give me my windows back! Why not use Win+D?
[October 24, 2007, 1:30]
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 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]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Vista is horrible. I recently bought a beautiful new Dell laptop - the XPS M1330 with all the bells and whistles - running Vista (XP was not offered as an option). I'm not a professional techie but I'm comfortable and reasonably knowledgeable about...
[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. Sure, you won't be able to find many popular games out there being supported by game designers, but the ones you do find are GEMS.
[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 used to work in a corporation where I was initially given a Windows 2000 PC.
[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. Rupert: What package do you use for Exchange email integration?
[October 23, 2007, 17:19]
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 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]
ThinkPad X60 Rejuvenated!
Blog Gutsy Gibbon). ThinkPad X60 redux, thanks to the Gutsy Gibbon More likely, I shall slip Gibbon-convert Rupert Goodwins a pint of amber nectar and secure his Wi-Fi-fixing services. My poor old 512MB ThinkPad X60, which had a happy early life running...
[October 30, 2007, 8:54]
