"don't buy Windows Vista - Get Ubuntu for free"

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I honestly believe that ubuntu is better operating system than Vista. Here's a couple videos demonstrating why. Ubuntu is totally free and doesn't have the steep hardware requirements of Vista.You can find out more information at http://www.ubuntu.com If anyone needs help getting things up and running please feel free to PM me.

EDIT: I should mention that ubuntu makes a great server for the small and medium size business enviroment, in fact I have ubuntu setup as a file server at work. Why would I pay thousands of dollars in license fees when I can have what I need for free?

EDIT 4/23/07: it seems the original intro video I had on here was deleted so I put another one in it's place, plus 2 more added including one comparing ubuntu to Vista.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMp7B_91RzQ[/youtube]



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GOlLJP_Knk[/youtube]



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ[/youtube]





[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_EuDj9Srw[/youtube]

Last edited by jman on 23 Apr 2007, 2:46 am, edited 1 time in total.

Also note that the latest Ubuntu (7.04 "Feisty Fawn") comes with the 3D core stuff working "straight out of the box" ()i.e. from the download at https://shipit.ubuntu.com/). Once installed, the Beryl front-end stuff is a few clicks (for a short extra download) away.

I'm envious of the first video above. With my ancient graphics card (Nvidia GeForce2), I can't have the raindrop or "wave" effects. That's all I seem to miss out on. No matter. The cube's fine and, not just closing, but "burning" windows is fun.

I use WXP for clients and FreeBSD for servers, and that works fine for me, but I encourage anyone who is the slightest bit interested to try Ubuntu, it's a great way to get started with Linux.

Ubuntu is of most excellent quality. It's right up there with XP in terms of hardware compatibility, the same can't be said for Vista.

Considering getting this... it is also meant to be pretty immune to viruses from what I hear ?

Yeah

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

They'll send you CDs for free.

i would get linux if
A) i hear of a free (or at least non-subscription) alternative to Cedega that is compatible with DirectX10 games and is reliable with all windows games (i have quite a catalog that spans years back)
B)if open office is compatible with all Microsoft office (i have only heard it works with word so far)
C) if they add compatibility with Hybrid Hard drives and DX10 cards(i heard the hardware is completely different)

most non-windows OS have that tag and it is simply because people don't make viruses for that OS so often so in a way yes but still don't neglect getting a virus scanner for it.

Can't help you there... except... why do you not want to "get" Linux? It's free. It's just a download, or free CD, and you can dual boot, or run both with Xen.Can answer this one... see belowThey will, faster than MS. Again, see Xen.

I find it amusing to talk about OpenOffice being "compatible" with MS Office.

Being sensible, MS Office isn't compatible with MS Office.

Way back in the very early days, when I was progressing from StarOffice onto an early beta of OO, I had a rather large MS Office Word document that went "bad". MS Office would just crash when attempting to open it. There had been quite a few changes between the bad copy and the previous (readable) backup. Somewhat of an impasse.

I loaded the document straight into OO. Two chapters had been swapped (back) in position (possibly the change that had caused MS Office to panic). Other than that late change, all was intact. Re-saved it, and then MS Office could cope with it.

Around the same time, I had found some minor incompatibilities between OO and MS Office spreadsheets (not the least being how few functions MS supported). Mainly layout. IIRC, OO was correct, Excel didn't excel. I've not noticed any problems recently.

OO have just started fully supporting ppt files.

What else does MS Office give you... Outlook and the wildly imcompatible Outlook Express? Shall we forget about them?

Talking of incompatible - MS Works? (Which to my mind, doesn't.)

OO runs under MS Windows, so you don't need Linux for it, and why pay for the inferior MS Office anyway.

OpenOffice is more compatible with Office documents than Office for Mac.

For those of you that are interested check out these screenshots of my ubuntu desktop:



In this screenshot I am playing transport tycoon deluxe(best game ever! using DosBox



Again if anyone has any questions for me please feel free to either ask in this thread or PM me.

OMG i forgot how much i loved that game it is one of the many from my childhood
i remember playing it on a 75Mhz Pentium 1 with MS-DOS, those were the days

OMG me too, games like TTD, Doom, whiplash, jetfighter, Duke Nukem 3d, and all those other DOS games is what got me into computing in the first place.

how do you set up dos box?

sudo apt-get install dosbox then enter your "invisible" password, and voila. If it doesn't appear in your menu for whatever reason after you install it, just type dosbox in the terminal

cool. thanks. n00bie definately needs help getting used to linux.