Ubuntu 9.10 Prepares for Battle vs Windows 7
Posted in: Netbook, software, tags: canonical, ubuntu, windows 7Canonical, creators of open-source OS Ubuntu is not about to give all the limelight in the OS market to Microsoft and Windows 7. Come Thursday, the company is to make available the latest version of its OS geared specifically for netbooks – the Ubuntu 9.10.
Canonical chairman, Mark Shuttleworth said that he is looking forward to another head-to-head battle with Microsoft especially in the netbook department. If you have been following the development of netbooks, you’d remember that the Linux OS was first used in earlier netbooks. But this was completely overshadowed by Microsoft when it starts offering Windows XP to netbook manufacturers. In a way, Microsoft’s entry to the netbook market paved the way for its popularity.
Although he admitted the fact that Windows 7 is a credible release, Shuttleworth however calls Windows 7 as still proprietary and expensive. Windows 7 Starter Edition which is suited for netbooks are both pricey and restrictive of what it would allow users to do, said Shuttleworth.
Ubuntu 9.10 on the other hand promises to support all 25 different netbooks and will offer them with an OS that has simpler interface, faster booth and log-in time, better audio framework and improved 3G connectivity.
via PC World
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I Think that Windows is just a waste of money. Why buy a virus when you can get a proper operating system that is fast and more reliable and free like ubuntu 9.10 (Linux)
windows is not a virus
No, Windows is not a virus. Here’s what viruses do:
* They replicate quickly – okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so – okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk – okay, Windows does that too.
* Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh… Windows does that, too.
* Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that’s with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus.
It’s a bug.
No, Windows is not a virus. Here’s what viruses do:
* They replicate quickly – okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so – okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk – okay, Windows does that too.
* Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh… Windows does that, too.
* Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that’s with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus.
It’s a bug.
“I Think that Windows is just a waste of money. Why buy a virus when you can get a proper operating system that is fast and more reliable and free like ubuntu 9.10 (Linux)”
I hate to sound like a Microsoft fanboy, but every time I have an issue in Ubuntu I have to research it for hours to find a fix. The kernel is buggy for a lot of hardware it wasn’t specifically written for, implementing open-source solutions to things that come prebundled with Windows Vista or 7 (Media center, for example) takes a significant amount of time and ability to understand how to use command line.
A majority of administrative things to fix the bugs present in Linux require command line knowledge. As much as Ubuntu wants to scream that they are user-friendly, they aren’t. Compared to other Linux distros, yes, it’s easier to use.
But no, it’s not faster. My netbook boots Windows XP faster than Jaunty or Karmic. XP is snappier, more responsive, and quicker to load programs than Jaunty. My Karmic upgrade on my netbook actually rendered it completely useless as it takes the thing ages to draw anything, most likely due to a driver conflict that will require me to spend hours researching and typing in commands I’ve never seen before into the CLI.
Besides Vista being a heap of trash, what’s with all the Linux and Mac people bashing on Windows as a whole so hard? 7 is gorgeous, loads quickly, solves a lot of the issues present in 64-bit computing, and comes with a free Virtual Machine of Windows XP in case you do have any serious compatibility issues.
firstly every-other os made by micro**** since early dos has been a pile of ****, what about widows me, xp sp1, 98 sp1 etc
secondly command line, which would you rather do, copy and paste one or 2 lines of text into a terminal or navigate through 17 levels of menus to fix it you dont need any command line skill/knowledge to fix problems with it
i have only ever had 3 problems on ubuntu, 1 was with too many conflicting plugins for firefox (took about 5 mins to cure) 1 is with a program that has a problem in it (not the os’s fault) and the other is with wine which is pretending to be windows, so of course it is going to be stupid and break constantly
the upgrade to karmic was probably from eb3 which isn’t supposed to be upgraded to ubuntu, wait till eb4 next month, there was a patch that was released to prevent this upgrade but it was a day late because they had forgotten to block it as standerd