I've bee installing windows updates for hours after reinstalling Vista on my old Dell laptop and I stuck a DVD in the drive thinking I was going to burn some sort of Dell diagnostic boot disc. I forgot the disc was in the drive and rebooted after installing some updates and when I came back Ubuntu was loading from the disc. I let it run and to my surprise it came up after a lot of chugging and clunking of the drive. I have to say at first blush it seems to work beautifully. Firefox was already there so I opened a browser, looked at a few pages to see if they would display properly, came over here, logged in and walah. Nice to know I have a backup OS. I'm going to fool with this some more to see if it runs any faster on this old Dell. Anyway, just thought I'd share. Ta ta for now . . .
I'm on here brwosing around on Ubuntu
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It actually spelled viola, but pronounced "walla" in English. I think it has something to do with their white surrender flags, which they appear to have an abundance of...
I was surprised it came up like it did because on my newer Toshiba Qosmio laptop it wouldn't load, tried it a couple of times. On the old, crusty Dell it loaded and worked fine. I'm back to using windoze now. Heck I even went back to using IE after years of using Firefox and then chrome for a little while. I stopped using chrome because like you said Rick, they seem to be too much in your business and it appears they log a lot of information about us. Big brother for real.
Firefox was crapping out on me because I go to several stock websites that use Adobe Flash and they don't seem to play well together. The stock websites work fine with IE9, no Flash crashes, har har. After using IE a bit I think it's just fine. They seemed to have finally solved their performance issues and IE seems as fast as any of the other browsers now. I'm even using MS Security Essentials instead of AVAST or AVG. MS SE works just fine, no problems. It appears that MS is getting their ****e together. They have to compete with the other evil empire-Google.
Firefox was crapping out on me because I go to several stock websites that use Adobe Flash and they don't seem to play well together. The stock websites work fine with IE9, no Flash crashes, har har. After using IE a bit I think it's just fine. They seemed to have finally solved their performance issues and IE seems as fast as any of the other browsers now. I'm even using MS Security Essentials instead of AVAST or AVG. MS SE works just fine, no problems. It appears that MS is getting their ****e together. They have to compete with the other evil empire-Google.
Hey, it's late, and I haven't eaten yet -- what did you expect...?
I could probably make up some more excuses, but I'm outta rum -- all I have is cheap beer left...
Ubuntu is pretty cool. I run it as the only OS on my netbook. I also ran Ubuntu as my primary OS for quite a while but Windows 7 won me back to the Windows camp. I run Ubuntu in a virtual machine on my desktop, Somethings are just easier to do in Linux.
For lower powered machines both XUbuntu and Lubuntu are great alternatives. They're Ubuntu but with a different desktop enviorment. Basically they take less horsepower to run. Check them out if you decide to dual boot.
For lower powered machines both XUbuntu and Lubuntu are great alternatives. They're Ubuntu but with a different desktop enviorment. Basically they take less horsepower to run. Check them out if you decide to dual boot.
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ok what version as I have just got
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.
Codenamed “Precise Pangolin”, 12.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing a few new features and improving quality control.
There are 54 product images and 2 cloud images being shipped with this 12.04 LTS release, with translations available in 41 languages.
The Ubuntu project’s 12.04 archive currently has 39,226 binary packages in it, built from 19,179 source packages, so lots of good starting points for your imagination!
For PC users, Ubuntu 12.04 supports laptops, desktops, and netbooks with a unified look and feel based on an updated version of the desktop shell called “Unity”, which introduces “Head-Up Display” search capabilities. Finding and installing software using the Ubuntu Software Centre is now easier thanks to improvements in speed, search and usability.
Ubuntu Server 12.04 has made it much easier to provision, deploy, host, manage, and orchestrate enterprise data centre infrastructure services with the introduction of new technologies such as “Metal as
a Service” (MAAS), the Juju Charm Store, and the latest OpenStack version, codenamed Essex. These technologies further position Ubuntu Server as the best OS for scale-out computing.
havent installed it yet as I am creating an iso image on CD so I can use it anywhere
talk later!
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.
Codenamed “Precise Pangolin”, 12.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing a few new features and improving quality control.
There are 54 product images and 2 cloud images being shipped with this 12.04 LTS release, with translations available in 41 languages.
The Ubuntu project’s 12.04 archive currently has 39,226 binary packages in it, built from 19,179 source packages, so lots of good starting points for your imagination!
For PC users, Ubuntu 12.04 supports laptops, desktops, and netbooks with a unified look and feel based on an updated version of the desktop shell called “Unity”, which introduces “Head-Up Display” search capabilities. Finding and installing software using the Ubuntu Software Centre is now easier thanks to improvements in speed, search and usability.
Ubuntu Server 12.04 has made it much easier to provision, deploy, host, manage, and orchestrate enterprise data centre infrastructure services with the introduction of new technologies such as “Metal as
a Service” (MAAS), the Juju Charm Store, and the latest OpenStack version, codenamed Essex. These technologies further position Ubuntu Server as the best OS for scale-out computing.
havent installed it yet as I am creating an iso image on CD so I can use it anywhere
talk later!
I know you love portable apps. Check out Pen Drive Linux's USB installer and boot from a USB. Set a persistence file and you can keep an install on a USB that saves it's info between sessions.