I've got the 64-bit version installed on my laptop (dual-booting Vista) and I absolutely love it. I'm relatively new to using Linux for anything but some occasional misc things at work and some software development back in school, but I absolutely love this OS. The performance is great, and the customization is incredible. I know there are some Linux guys around here. Anybody else running this? Any must have apps, etc?
I upgraded my laptop to it today, although I haven't really played around with it too much to see what is different from previous Ubuntu releases. Just noticed a few graphical changes, which I like. I will probably do the same for my desktop soon, although I want to make sure there aren't any weird issues first.
I left my venerable Thinkpad R32 updating when I left for work. My main (home) machine is an eight year old laptop that would probably be in a landfill if I ran windows on it.
My Dell crashed a few weeks back, and my precious data seemed unrecoverable. That's when a friend recommended booting an Ubuntu Live CD and accessing my hard drive through its OS. Lo and behold, there it was, intact and ready to be transfered to an external hard drive. I still use Vista, but I owe Ubuntu big time.
Where can I download this? I am looking to replace Windows on one of my older laptops as well. As long as I can run Firefox and MS Office on it, I will be good. Never used Linux before, Do I just download it on a CD and then boot up the computer from it just like I would do with a Windows CD? I want to format the hard drive and just have Ubuntu on it.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu Some documentation on installation: https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/switching/installing.html It comes with OpenOffice, which isn't exactly MS Office, but it should still get the job done for the most part. edit: Kind of outdated by now I guess, but I checked some of these videos out when I was making the switch. Might help some: http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/
Sweet! I use Hardy Heron in a virtual machine but I haven't touched it in awhile (I was doing some Python on it). I'll upgrade today, I'm looking forward to it.
I'm using 40GB (out of a 300GB drive). The nice thing is that the installation takes care of the allocation of the memory into partitions unless you want to get fancy and start configuring it yourself. There are also several tutorials online about how to dual-boot your system even if you already have Windows installed. Vista in particular has a couple of features that make the process a little simpler in terms of partition management.
Yeah the subtle graphical changes were the first thing I noticed, too. In all honesty, it's probably not a huge departure from the previous release (Hardy). But at least on my laptop, I've noticed a significant performance difference. I don't know if it's driver support or what, but everything just seems to be so quick now. There are a lot of great visual effects, too.
let me know when Ubuntu/Linux will fully support Cubase, Logic, PreSonus S1, nearly half of my VST's or any of my M-Audio MIDI hardware. It really looks like it's worth trying, but it's obviously not set up for musicians. Not yet anyway.
Must adapt, been a few years behind now. Semi-noob question for the tech savvy: The Windows XP on my PC is absolutely busted. I tried a Windows repair install (not the clean re-install) but the install failed. All the data and programs are still on the disk. Can I install Ubuntu on the busted PC and load/boot/"dual boot" my PC from Ubuntu? Basically bypassing the Windows on it. I'll probably try it anyway, not like I have anything to lose.
ubuntu wont boot the windows for you, but if u d/l ntfs-ng u can probably still access the data on the windows harddrive (provided u didnt delete it when installing ubuntu) and also write to it. I'd recommend u just transfering the data that you want onto an external harddrive or usb or dvds or something.
I don't really notice too much improvement performance-wise (maybe a little bit?), but my laptop isn't all that great (1.6 GHz, 512MB RAM, 32-bit).
For anyone who installed Amarok 2.0 as it comes in the Jaunty repos and thinks it blows. Here's a way to go back to 1.4 http://nomad.ca/blog/2009/apr/3/amarok-14-jaunty-ubuntu-904/ Amarok 1.4 is hands down the best music management player I've ever used.
Hmm...might be a good idea to install it on one of my older laptops (Pentium III, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB). Only problem is this laptop does not have a CD drive, so I need to find a way to create a bootable thumb drive and find a way to get my computer to boot up from the USB drive. I already have XP installed on this one, but I intend to remove it should I take a liking to Ubuntu. Any idea if this is doable?
