Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Update on Ubuntu 8.04…
I’m in the continuing process of evaluating Ubuntu as an alternate to MS XP/Vista.
There are still a few things that are not quite up to snuff:
- Great improvements on Firefox add-ins for videos: lots of “restricted drivers” are being installed. 7.10 had issues there…
- Stand-By and Hibernate both complain a lot when turning the laptop back on…
- Ubuntu and Applications are quite sluggish on the Dell C610 LapTop. WinXPP is much faster on same platform…
- I like date and time formats in the form of: YYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss as in 2008-05-06 17:27:32. However, I had to set the “International Settings” as “English (DK)” in order to get it. English (CA) does not!
- Last, but the most annoying: French-Canadian Keyboard Mapping is still not mapped properly!!!
Friday, May 2, 2008
Just installed Ubuntu 8.04 last night: trying it now…
One of my draft “Comment” at the present is about “Is Linux Being Ready for the DeskTop”, i.e. besides Linux being the best server environment, is Linux DeskTop/LapTop ready to take on the XPs, Vistas and Mac of this world?
Since I have been tinkering with **N**X for quite a while, the best distribution for installation so far, has been Ubuntu. Bar none! But once installed, the actual functionalities are … Well, I’ll leave that for the upcoming comment.
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