Linux......Come of age!!!!!

TonyLisaP

Big companies will always bad press an Open Source OS. What money do they make out of it? Profit profit profit is what it is all about.
Ubuntu is very very very good and I would recommend it to anyone. Install it under Virtual PC which I believe is free and if you don't like it then just delete it. You don't have to change your system at all.
Download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en and follow the instructions to install, then download the ubuntu 8.04 ISO from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download then launch virtual pc. You can browse to the iso file and install from that, no need for CD-Rom at all. Give it a go, go on you know you want to.

BillScarab

Or just boot it from a LiveCD, no need to install anything then. Just download and burn a disc, then boot from it.

TonyLisaP

BillScarab wrote: »

Or just boot it from a LiveCD, no need to install anything then. Just download and burn a disc, then boot from it.

Then you risk removing your current operating system. Until you know you like it surely it is safer to run it as a virtual machine under the current OS?

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TonyLisaP wrote: »

Then you risk removing your current operating system. Until you know you like it surely it is safer to run it as a virtual machine under the current OS?

The very first option on the Live CD is along the lines of "Let me use this version without making any changes to my computer"

I was attempting something using Ubuntu & Kbuntu Live CD's and there's no changes to my main operating system.

superscaper

TonyLisaP wrote: »

Then you risk removing your current operating system. Until you know you like it surely it is safer to run it as a virtual machine under the current OS?

Why would it risk removing the OS? Every LiveCD I've used made it pretty clear whether you wanted to install it or simply run from CD.

TonyLisaP

I am talking about novice users here, boot up, choose install, don't select to save the current OS. Nice new shiny Ubuntu installation but old OS GONE GONE GONE. I have done this myself by accident before playing with a machine when I was half asleep.

BillScarab

Not a very big risk though.

TonyLisaP

BillScarab wrote: »

Not a very big risk though.

Nor is running across the M1 at 0300hrs but you could still get splattered.

tomsolomon

ringo_24601 wrote: »

What's the difference between a religious nut and a Linux fanatic?

The religious nut can play decent games on his home computer

See previous post............:D

mentat72

I'm also trying out Linux at present, after a disaster a couple of years ago with Xandros, I am using an old laptop with Kubuntu HH on it and am very please with it so far. I think I'd end up with a machine with XP and a machine with Linux, with the intention of eventually going pure linux.

As it is, I try to use open source stuff now to get away from Microsoft software as the MS stuff is over integrated, the same way that Adobe software has gone of late. Demands on PCs have exponentially increased, so the better PC/better OS profit ladder keeps climbing to keep everyone in profit.

Linux demonstrates that you don't necessarily need an Uber PC to do the basic jobs, but there aren't many shops that sell 'old PCs' are there? Lots of people want just the basic to do the basics - go with Linux via the LiveCDs, don't like it, fine you have lost nothing and Windows will still be there when you get back.

I'm not a MacVangelist, I'm not a LinuxVangelist, I'm not a WinVangelist. I owe loyalty to no computer OS - it is a platform for the tools I use. Whichever one works, works - try not to be upset if what you want it for is not the same as someone else. Try and chill out fighting your respective platform corners - they are only computers.

This rambling blurb is now finished and I will put my 20 years of computer experience back in the dusty shoe box under the stairs.