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EVERY year, some bozo comes up with a prediction that Linux on the desktop is dead.
These people really ought to know better, but it’s fun to get a rise out of Linux users, and a provocative headline does wonders for page views.
I’ve decided not to play their game, so I’m not even going to name the fathead columnist who raised this issue again, and focus instead on why he’s wrong. That way, the truth gets out without benefiting the cynical purveyor of the lie.
TOM’S Hardware has come out with a head-to-head comparison of Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7, running both operating systems through a battery of 19 tests in six categories (Start and Stop, File Copy, Archiving, Multimedia, System and Gaming). The results are surprising.
EVEN new users of Ubuntu Linux are likely to find its file manager, Nautilus, easy to learn and use. The ability to drag and drop files from one folder to another to move or copy them, or to right-click on an item to get a context-sensitive menu will all seem very familiar to users accustomed to other operating systems such as Windows.
But even experienced Ubuntu users may not be getting the most of the operating system’s default file manager. Here are a number of tips to get the most out of Nautilus.
Now showing on my PC desktop: Maverick Meerkat
Ever since Lucid Lynx (10.4), I’ve been unable to install Ubuntu Linux on my desktop PC because newer versions of the operating system did not play nice with my old Nvidia GeForce 7100 graphics card. Booting from the LiveCD would give me a black screen and hang, and none of the work-arounds that I found online would work. So for quite some time, I’ve been frozen at Karmic Koala (9.10), which wasn’t so bad, except that this kept me from trying out the newer stuff.
A DISGRUNTLED reader, Paul, recently accused me of being a Microsoft hater or “just a Linux fanboy.” I am neither, but let’s listen to Paul first.
I HAD been putting it off for weeks.
When I updated my Linux PC to Ubuntu 8.04 in March last year, I told myself I would upgrade my operating system two versions later. Now, three months have passed since 9.04 or Jaunty Jackalope was released and I was still on Hardy Heron.
Ubuntu enthusiasts Rochelle Derilo, Frederick Bamm Gabriena, Dax Solomon Umaming (back turned), Allan Caeg, Juan Carlo Torres and John Sese Cuneta.
IT seemed like a perfectly geeky thing to do, so I braved rain and the Saturday night traffic to get to the Ubuntu Release Party at the Ortigas Center.
It’s been almost three years since I began using Ubuntu, a user-friendly Linux-based operating system, to replace Windows on my home PC, and I’ve been enjoying the benefits ever since: absolutely free, high-quality software; the absence of viruses and other malicious programs; and no intrusive anti-piracy measures that assumed I was a thief. In this time, I had gone through three operating system upgrades, yet I had never been to a release party.
