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Ubuntu 7.1
I installed it in a virtual machine. It works fine, but the virtual software has some issues. I'm using this as a learning tool on using Linux. So far, so so.
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Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
I am a graduate student of astronomy and I started using personal computers in 1981 and that was one of the first IBM PCs with DOS. Until summer of 2005, I used Windows exclusively, but then started looking for something better in the form of Linux/Free Unix. December of 2007, I switched my home network over to Ubuntu Linux and purchased a Dell computer with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. That was the last time I touched a Windows computer:
Best things about switching to Ubuntu Linux:
No more viruses to worry about, Ubuntu is FREE, Complete install and configuration can be done in minutes (Windows used to take me days to get it completely configured), updates are optional at the user's discretion, By contrast, Microsoft pushes updates to you whether you want them or not. With Ubuntu, Every 6 months you have new major release with exciting new features you can try. I love the silly names for Ubuntu Releases:"Gutsy Gibbon" is the current release and "Hardy Heron" is next in April of 2008 with lots of new stuff to play with. Ubuntu works particularly well with older hardware and can be used to resurrect an old Dell or Gateway or other dinosaur computers that you have sitting around gathering dust. Windows Vista release was an expensive DISASTER plain and simple, get Ubuntu and try it today...I bet you have an old computer that would love to live again, re-incarnate it with Ubuntu...did I mention it is FREE? For grins I recently built a computer from scratch for under 200 dollars and installed Ubuntu Linux on it...worked no problem...I am no wizard either...if I can do it so can you...
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Ubuntu is the best
Man, Ubuntu just keeps getting better! It's easy to install. It includes a LOT of extra software including the awesome OpenOffice.org office suite. You get a lot of games including Aisleriot Solitaire which includes TONS of different solitaire games from Thirteen to Klondike to Golf and so on.
You also get the award-winning Firefox web browser for virtually worry-free web surfing.
For the multimedia lovers, Ubuntu includes a nifty iTunes-like music player (Rhythmbox) and a nifty movie player (Totem), both of which can play popular multimedia formats - including MP3s, AACs, and DVDs - once you install the necessary multimedia codecs.
Ubuntu installs easily with just a few clicks and a tiny bit of typing (you have to supply a user name and password for your user account), and it is easy to install Ubuntu on a computer already running Windows, giving you the choice of either an easy-to-set-up dual-boot configuration or have Ubuntu take over the entire hard disk.
And if you have powerful video hardware, Ubuntu comes pre-installed with Compiz-Fusion for nifty desktop video effects such as minimize/maximize/restore animations as well as a view of your virtual desktops as a 3D cube.
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Great Linux distro!
This version 7 isn't the latest. There's new version available! Ubuntu 8.04 and Linux Training Library 2CDs set I tried before many other Linux distros but Ubuntu is my favorite by far! It is friendly, complete and compact. Great OS, great design!
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Great!
I found a Dell Dimension desktop 2350 at a thrift store for $20 everything was intact with the exception of the memory had been removed, I bought it. I had a spare memory chip laying around that fit, so I installed it, the computer booted right up, then a problem, the previous owner had locked out windows xp with an administrator password. So I got on my notebook, downloaded the Ubuntu iso image, burned it to a disc, and installed it my new second hand desktop. Booted right up, no problems, now it is running perfect.
I did not have to configure anything at all. All the desktop hardware it working perfect. I upgraded the memory got 2 gigs in it now, and installed a wifi network card, which was promptly detected by Ubuntu and is working.
Ubuntu, in my book, is the best OS around.
I thought learning linux would be hard, but it is not.
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