Linux does not lack user friendliness any more. Ubuntu. openSUSE. Try them out.
Linux does not lack quality software. Openoffice.org. Firefox. Pidgin. Thunderbird. They all run on Linux.
Linux does not lack power. It runs on the widest range of hardware.
Linux does not lack company backing. Novell. Canonical. Red Hat. They are large corporations.
Linux does not lack [...]
Introduction
My previous experience with Ubuntu has been good. 8.10 did very well for me, even though I remained strictly in the openSUSE 11.1 camp.
People were expecting big changes in 8.10, but it never came to that. Even now, in 9.04 (a.k.a. the Jaunty Jackalope), the expectations of a big change were there, though somewhat damped.
As [...]
Introduction
Since the days of 10.1, I have been an openSUSE fan. I have been trying out new distros regularly, finding some to be very good, but always in the end rolling back to SUSE for one reason or another.
And then came Fedora 10: I wanted to see if it could finally win me over.
System
I am [...]
Introduction
My previous experience with Ubuntu has been good. 8.04.1 did very well for me, even if I finally decided to go with SUSE 11.0 as my main Linux distro.
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was a non-LTS release. People were expecting big changes, though perhaps a little irrationally. Nevertheless, the list of new features is given in [...]
Introduction
I was excited about the launch of Mandriva 2009. Why? Mainly because the 2008.1 (Spring) Edition was so good. It had the best KDE 3.5 implementation in its class. So when 2009 came out, with a brand new KDE 4.1, I went for the download like a shark after anchovies.
The download, perhaps, was a little [...]
