Here Comes the Penguin
November 22nd 2006 06:17
Here comes the penguin!
The 700mb download gave me an ISO which I burned onto a CD, then I inserted it into the CD drive on my PC and hit reset. Upon booting up I was given the option to run Ubuntu directly from the CD, ‘great’ I thought, that way nothing is ruined on the computer should I dislike it, no need to uninstall or anything.
Upon loading I was impressed at the vast array of programs that came with it. While not bearing the same names they were otherwise the same, particularly there was an equivalent to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel among other programs, and all free. That’s well over $200 worth of software for free.
So resourceful and adaptable is the design of this suite of software they even give you the option of saving the files in a way that they can be readable by their Microsoft counter parts.
Appearance wise it is very streamlined and slick, not like the Windows XP design which put quite frankly is anything but streamlined and/or slick (though that might be personal bias). The Ubuntu look is also far more customizable than Windows XP is.
Heck, with a bit of ingenuity you can make it look even more slick, heres a demo of what can be done:
Unfortunately it had its negatives, it simply isn’t Windows, for instance the folders aren’t what you’re used to, saving and loading files may take some getting used to. It isn’t harder per-se, just different.
Another problem, bigger problem, is the fact it doesn’t run Windows based applications without some sort of emulator, which complicates things a bit too much.
Problems, or rather minor technicalities, aside Microsoft is afraid of Linux. Linux is free, it’s gaining momentum among average users and it is all but losing support. It is getting better and better, right now, with a bit of know-how you could custom tune Ubuntu so that it can be all that Windows Vista promises without sparing a cent.
So cheers to Linux, down with Windows and all the rest.
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What does it stand for anyway?
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Isometric Sourcering Orange?
Erm, wikipedia rocks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image