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ThinkPad X60 Rejuvenated!
Blog My poor old 512MB ThinkPad X60, which had a happy early life running Windows XP but then suffered a crippling attack of Windows Vista, has now been restored — almost — to productive use thanks to a timely install of Ubuntu 7.10 (a.k.a.
[October 30, 2007, 8:54]
Nubuntu? Schmubuntu!
Blog Comment Seriously, there are so many programs that ship with ubuntu that are far better than notepad++ with no configuration necessary (emacs for instance). This article confuses me because I have been using ubuntu for over six months now without the need...
[May 6, 2008, 9:34]
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]
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]
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]
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]
IBM Takes On Microsoft With ODF-based Symphony
News Versions for the Mac and Ubuntu are coming later this year. Symphony 1.0 is now available as a standalone package, running on Windows Vista and XP, as well as on major Linux versions including Suse and Red Hat.
[June 6, 2008, 15:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A healthier attitude would be to ignore it, and an even healthier one would be to move on to other software — having used Ubuntu for a month or so on a spare laptop, I'm going to make my main machine dual boot with the eventual aim of relegating...
[April 28, 2006, 18:25]
Maybe Vista Really Is Getting Better
Blog Performance is still not as good as Ubuntu or Mandriva on the same laptop, but even that still seems better than before. Everything that I have installed so far has gone smoothly, and I haven't gotten the "that program might not have installed...
[August 8, 2008, 7:51]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ubuntu is famed for its addiction to sudo, which is its attempt to get around the privileges paradox. There is one product that's worse than XP — and it's not Ubuntu, which does have its faults. That's one of the reasons that Windows has been such...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Time To Lap Up Linux
Leader Intel has said it is working with Ubuntu and Red Flag Linux developers to make sure everything's ready for the next generation of ultra-mobile PCs, where the open-source software's much smaller footprint, greater flexibility, rich mix of...
[May 2, 2007, 15:34]
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]
Michael Dell Chooses Linux At Home
News Ubuntu. It emerged on Thursday that the Dell chief is using a Precision M90, loaded with the just-released version of Ubuntu called Feisty Fawn. But it seems Michael Dell still favours Microsoft software for gaming and travelling, and even then he...
[April 19, 2007, 15:49]
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]
Just Install Ubuntu!
Talkback I installed Ubuntu 8.04, and didn't even tell him it's not Windows. I just installed Ubuntu on a machine that the user installed SP3 on. To tell the truth, I think that his Windows version was pirated but I'm not sure.
[May 22, 2008, 11:30]
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. The effects of such problems on Linux will be far more devastating than they ever were on Windows. There is a reason Windows takes up a large amount of ram to do...
[October 22, 2007, 13:32]
Gartner: Ignore Vista Until 2008
Talkback In the same machine, pop in the ubuntu cd, and almost everything works. So, (to repeat many of the messages posted earlier) it is not that windows supports hardware, but hardware (manufacturers) support windows, bc.it has far more consumers, who...
[November 21, 2005, 19:06]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the disk, and both Vista and Ubuntu booted correctly, but when I tried to boot the XP partition, it actually started to boot Vista but then complained that the boot...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
