This morning I saw the proverbial sign on the wall: the days of the Microsoft monopoly are limited. My father asked me which Ubuntu flavour to install. The short answer: xubuntu 32bits. If even my father has had enough of that buggy, insecure, bloated piece of crap called Windows, then Microsoft is in for a hard time. I urge you all to read the story of a guy whose mother switched to Ubuntu. The story is priceless. For every machine that is switched, there is one less potential spam-zombie on the Internet. Your daily dose of drug advertisements are brought to you by Windows PCs of joe average, unaware that his machine has been taken over the moment he clicked on some random active-X applet in his browser. But the real value for my father will be the proper package management in Ubuntu. Today he can install Ubuntu, the next month install and de-install a 1000 different packages. The net-effect? His system will be just as fast the day he installed the OS. Try doing that to your poor windows registry. His remedy so far, was to re-install windows every now and then. I hope his experiences with Ubuntu will be good. Maybe we can ask him to report his findings and problems in the comment section of this log, so that we can track his quest. At least the CEO of Microsoft is pleased with his performance.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Decay of an Empire
This morning I saw the proverbial sign on the wall: the days of the Microsoft monopoly are limited. My father asked me which Ubuntu flavour to install. The short answer: xubuntu 32bits. If even my father has had enough of that buggy, insecure, bloated piece of crap called Windows, then Microsoft is in for a hard time. I urge you all to read the story of a guy whose mother switched to Ubuntu. The story is priceless. For every machine that is switched, there is one less potential spam-zombie on the Internet. Your daily dose of drug advertisements are brought to you by Windows PCs of joe average, unaware that his machine has been taken over the moment he clicked on some random active-X applet in his browser. But the real value for my father will be the proper package management in Ubuntu. Today he can install Ubuntu, the next month install and de-install a 1000 different packages. The net-effect? His system will be just as fast the day he installed the OS. Try doing that to your poor windows registry. His remedy so far, was to re-install windows every now and then. I hope his experiences with Ubuntu will be good. Maybe we can ask him to report his findings and problems in the comment section of this log, so that we can track his quest. At least the CEO of Microsoft is pleased with his performance.
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I thought XFCE was for relatively underpowered computers?
Voorlopig ben ik het hele weekend al bezig geweest om te proberen mijn Windows Adres Boek over te brengen naar de UBUNTU machine. De transfer (gewoon met een floppy !!) lukt wel maar in het adresboek van EVOLUTION MAIL op de Ubuntu staat dan de data in de verkeerde velden en m.m. wordt de CONTACTLIJST niet aangemaakt.
Het handmatig inkloppen van een nieuw CONTACT werkt uiteraard perfect.
Underpowered ? met een INTEL Pentium 4 op 1.6GHz en 630MB RAM....
Het is inderdaad een verademing te zien hoe flitsend de boel opstart en de Applications geladen worden.
Alleen al die gekke namen GNOME GUTSY,GNIMP,GNU
Inderdaad Jacco, Xubuntu gebruikt een stuk minder resources dan Ubuntu, dus daarom gebruik ik die. En als ik het goed heb, dan komt Ubuntu 7.10 standaard met al dat eye-candy. Als je geen dual-core met high end gfx card hebt, dan zou ik gewoon xubuntu installeren ipv ubuntu. Boot waarschijnlijk ook veel sneller.
Hmm... vervelend dat die address import niet werkte. Kwamen de adressen van Outlook? De procedure om van Outlook naar Evolution te gaan, staat hier.
Goed nieuws dat het verder bevalt!
Oefff...het windows adresboek en de contactlijst van OE zit nu in de UBUNTU machine. Ziet er allemaal wel fraai uit en inderdaad e.e.a werkt goed intuitief. Nu nog de PREFS en PERSONALS instellen want voorlopig komt de post alleen nog maar binnen op de WIN XP machine. Maar ik wil je moeder het nog niet aandoen dat ze met de PINQUIN moet werken.......
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