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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 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]
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]
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]
Looking Forward To Trying Fiesty Out!
Talkback I recently bought a new laptop, and have been using Ubuntu on it since day one, with great success. I've recently been sent the free Windows Vista upgrade disk. I've tried out the fancy 3D graphics stuff (Beryl) and found the various new methods of...
[April 12, 2007, 10:30]
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 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? Having used Ubuntu for the best part of a year, I'm a fan.
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
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]
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]
PCLinuxOS 2008 Gnome On New Laptop.
Blog I first tried the latest version of Ubuntu, but it didn't find all the hardware and I've never been a real fan. It came pre-installed with VISTA, and I inquired about buying with the OS removed. The clerk informed me that if I had to send it in for...
[June 9, 2008, 9:41]
On Safari With Steve Jobs At WWDC
Blog I realised as I fired it up that this was the first time in weeks I'd turned it on - looks like I've switched to Ubuntu without really noticing). Most of the keynote was spent unveiling new features coming with Leopard in the autumn - good features...
[June 11, 2007, 22:26]
Microsoft's Mojave Just A Desert Vista
Blog To some extent, that's because once you've got people on a stable system they understand you leave them there - I'm not going to get my XP'd parents onto Ubuntu either - but it's an indication of how little Microsoft understands the market it...
[August 11, 2008, 8:56]
XP Service Pack 3 Delayed
Talkback Currently Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Microsoft just doesn't support thier "end users" anymore.just because thier new Vista "Wonder O.S.is ready to roll.why should they care about home or small bussiness users that have XP home or Pro.or even 2003 server!
[October 23, 2006, 21:24]
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]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ubuntu's new shininess comes at a good time. It involves making a selection of live CDs - Puppy Linux is impressive in its simplicity and flexibility, while Ubuntu seems to "just work" - and giving them to my punters.
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
Dell Chooses Ubuntu For Linux PCs
News Dell is trying a second time to sell personal computers with Linux preinstalled, this time using the up-and-coming Ubuntu version of the open-source operating system. At the end of May, the number two PC maker will begin selling some consumer...
[May 1, 2007, 15:44]
