After years of being frustrated with Windows XP came around and I thought things where better. But XP showed its problems with age and I got tired of the update and reboot cycle. The over time crashes, death and reinstall cycle. I needed a change. I had looked at Linux numerous times and thought it anice idea, but it really wasn't a desktop OS. That is until Ubuntu started releasing its later releases. And with version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) we had an OS that is stable, when it updates, it just updates and RARELY asks for a reboot. And if something hangs, it doesn't take it down. But instead with a simple CRTL-ALT-Backsspace you login again and continue working, or you can bring up a termianl and kill it (harder but possible). And now with Hardy Heron (8.04) you have an extremely polished well running OS, that doesn't just give Vista a run for its money, but actually for it to try and attain too.
I'm mirroring a couple distros (currently just Ubuntu) and I'm also going to provide a few links below. Answers to some questions I had with my machine sjust strating out with Ubuntu. Currently I'm running dual boot on 3 machines, and hardly ever boot into Windows.
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distros/ 03-Jul-2008 15:50 - pub/ 17-Jun-2008 15:42 -
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