Sunday, April 16, 2006

Welcome to Ubuntu Linux


Installed this recently, for the third time over the last year but this time it's really taken it's hold of my machine. I'm lovin it. For those of you that don't know what Ubuntu is, take a look here: http://www.ubuntulinux.org

Ubuntu has everything that windows has and does things in such a logical way (in my opinion!)

Cool little things I've installed/setup on my Ubuntu OS:
  • Weather for London on the toolbar at the top,
  • Open Office (Comparable to MS Office, but free!)
  • Evolution Mail (Comparable to MS Outlook, but free!)
  • Transgaming, run windows games on Ubuntu Linux
I'm really pleased with Ubuntu, even considering swapping Windows from the 19" LCD and replacing with the Ubuntu Linux OS...We'll see.

Only problem is, I'm lovin it so much I'll want to seriously keep it - that poses 2 main problems
  1. I've installed Ubuntu on the 1gig machine, the slower of the two that I use. To use Ubuntu as a main OS I'd want it on the main machine, format-reinstall time :(
  2. Linux natively doesn't support Microsoft.NET, does this mean I have to swap to the dark side and use Java? I know one Web Developer that would be happy to talk about Java all day instead of .NET...hehe
Either way, Ubuntu Rocks. Download it, email me for a copy of the CD, just get it some way and try it out!

Enjoy.
C.