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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.
ALTHOUGH my main computer is a Linux box, I recently found myself setting up a couple of Windows 7 PCs. Outside of the usual free, must-have applications, I’ve settled on a small toolbox of seven free utilities that I like to install on every Windows computer I prep.
To more efficiently install all the usual goodies – Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC Media Player, Gimp, Dropbox, AVG Free and Skype, to name a few – I turn to the first tool, Ninite, a utility that automates the process of downloading and installing software.
ONE of the things I miss in Explorer in Windows 7 is the status bar that tells you how much free space you have left in a particular drive. Microsoft apparently removed this feature to avoid “user anxiety” problems caused when hard disk space was reserved for virtual memory. I suffer a different kind of anxiety, however. I constantly want to know how much free space I have on any given drive.
ONE of the selling points of Windows 7 is its ability to run on less powerful netbooks. I put this feature to the test over the weekend by installing Microsoft’s latest operating system on an HP 2133 Mini-Note PC.
WILL Windows 7 from Microsoft kill desktop Linux as some technology pundits predict? The notion seemed so absurd that I initially dismissed it as a gimmick by writers hoping to draw readers to their Web sites.
Then I thought, if these people were talking about killing Linux, then Linux must be making serious inroads indeed. After all, only a few years ago, the free and open source operating system was itself being touted as a Windows killer.
