Ubuntu 9.10 Prepares for Battle vs Windows 7

October 27, 2009 16 Comments

Canonical, 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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  • Johann Labuschagne

    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)

  • alex

    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.

  • alex

    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.

  • Sean

    “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.

  • alex

    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

  • Lee

    for me all 3 Os have issues

    1. Linux nice and stable but can’t find a Video editor like the one in OSX
    and Windows, Good heavens they have no Idea about video editing and they made a bad video editor even worse. its slow, and won”t Edit .MTS files and converting can cause many issues
    but then again Microsoft I guess left it out hoping people would spend their bucks on a real editor.

    2. OSX is great, it is stable, great out of the box experience for simple video editing.

    3 Windows 7 crappy when it comes to Video editing.
    It flat doesn’t make sense to me to use an editor like that, I guess that is why KLTV went to MACS for editing Video.

    I get real kick when the MS had the commercial for their Challenge getting a great PC for under 1,000 what they fail to mention is..why it won’t edit the newer HD video with out pain and suffering. if windows plays it (choppy ) I aught to be able to edit it.

    Plain and simple, if these camera companies are going to sell you a thousand dollar camera, they aught to include a half way decent editor that will allow one to create simple transitions and simple titles and Such.

    My Guess is that that Microsoft is so worried about their Codecs and copyrights and codecs that buying an HD camera is becoming a real Pain especially when it is USING AVCHD!

    So I had made a decision to purchase OSX.

    For me the “beach ball” has been quite happy and I can edit my video until i save up for the real nice editor..Say..I didn’t see transformers being made on a Windows machine..Yeah ..Pretty sure that was OSX… Hmm Spider Man hmm it was had “Blender” in its DNA as well..

    Is it me or do producers have a better understanding about a few things then some us laymen might understand? So I guess to be fair, It depends on what it is we want a Computer for .

    Mac Or PC in essence they are both Machines they will run an OS like Ubuntu, OSX or Windows ok granted some machines process language differently and some have different processors like an IBM and Intell.

    Linux is great for Working, MS is ok for game playing but sucks in video editing, OSX is great all around. I think that OSX would kick but if they allowed OSX to run on any system.

    Allow the person to buy it then allow them to chose their machine. Granted Mac Machines are built pretty tough though. Well that is my 2 cents worth..hmm If only Linux would come out with a decent video editing system ..something simpler the Cinerlla..Somthing beefier the Kino.

  • just say’n

    just bought my daughter a notebook with windows 7 starter on it, an hour later she says “daddy I can’t put a background picture on it.” come to find out windows left that option off because they said it slowed systems like notebooks down. Hacked the registry and got a her background pic on it but can’t change it unless i regedit again. the new background pic is on it though and it seems to run at the same speed as before. Microshaft says it will upgrade so she can change the background for $80. . . crap the notebook only cost $250. . . . . . Why would anyone want a notebook that is dysfunctional with windows when ubunto probably has all the bells and whistles available for free.

  • just say’n

    Bill gates gives a few bucks and helps out a few people with charities, . . . . ..Bill gates robs millions of people with constant hours lost in updating and discontinuing of software calling it obsolete and creating a new similar program that needs more updating, has less features than the previous, and costs the user more of their hard earned dollars and . . . .precious time. . . . .(Some of these users can’t “afford” the cost of dealing with these problems while working long hours at a low wage jobs and trying to support a family. . . .I wonder how many man hours have been wasted trying to update, fix and replace windows due to a new operating system release. . . . .I guess what i am trying to say is. . . .even though bill gives alot of money to a few charities. . . .its the “aggregate” effect on mankind that makes up a man’s final ending. . . . .

  • just say’n

    All those guys on t.v. saying windows 7 was my idea. . . . well bill. . .here’s mine. . . Help out people everywhere in all walks of life and. . ..Make a release that is free. . . .comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, background changing capabilities , etc. And make that release forever supported. . . .If linux can do it, then it must be possible. . . .so help us out . . . .that is my idea for windows 7

  • just say’n

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  • Lee

    My experience
    1 Windows runs fine at first but then begins to break down
    2 MS had HD video editing in Vista and removed all that in Windows 7 and created a bas— of an editor.

    3 MS creates 4 versions of the same soft ware. MS would save a great deal of money if they’d create one OS .

    4 OSX and Linux both are stable use less hdd space.
    5 All those commercials about MS listened to me are either relatives to the MS employers or Paid Actors

    5 Apple is now out ranking MS and is now an important competitor  in Both computers as well as small portable devices . don’t take my word for it google it.

    6 Ubuntu and other Linux is getting more and more useable every day.
    7 linux is proof positive that an OS can be made free , be virus free, and be stable.
    8. Linux and OSX are malleable to the Users needs where are windows threatens to throw one in prison for trying so.
    MS no longer has you register the program with you name and address but instead uses a unique id meaning that you no longer have any rights to anything. Not Having a personal registration I feel gives MS all control. My work is my work
    

  • Jonathan

    “well bill. . .here’s mine. . . Help out people everywhere in all walks of life and. . ..”

    He is.. he is saving millions of lives with his charities. He also no longer works at MS. Talk to his maniacle replacement Mr. Balmer.

  • Mark

    @Jonathan: Gates still works at MS – he’s on the board in an ‘advisory’ role and people will associate Gates with MS for a long time to come. Hardly surprising. I particularly liked it when at one of his charity conferences he unleashed some mosquitoes into the audience…the media headlines for the day….Gates unleashes more bugs into the wild….nice one, Gates. You moron.

    And to close, Ubuntu is amazing. I’ll never pay for software ever again. You can’t say better than that!

  • ubuntuomger

    Hey, the whole Mac vs PC referring to video editing is not related to the hardware any more for they are exactly the same. The point is, for the same price (2000€ for example) you can buy a faster PC than a Mac. So the video editing stuff comes down to software. If you can find the tools you are looking for on the Windows platform then you´re going to run faster than on a Mac, and thus is going to be better.

    However, Apple has FinalCut Pro, for example, which is made by them and only for them, so if that´s the video editing programme you like you´re sadly stuck with Apple, otherwise is way better to buy a high-powered PC.

    You talk about 1000$ PCs that can´t play HD video correctly. That is really weird, the only cases I came through is people buying PCs with lot of RAM and HD but without a dedicated graphics cards (talking about laptops here). If it has an intel GMA or something like that it´s not going to play video properly, nor games, nor anything graphics related. My PC was 800$ more than two years ago and plays and edits video (HD as well) perfectly because of the graphics card + processor. You have to know what you´re buying if you want it to work well, but for the most part, if you buy a 1000$ dollaras PC it will have a graphics card and will play/edit HD video perfectly :)

  • Jayaram K.H.

    The real battle against software terrorists and common man butchers.

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