The Ubuntu team have release their 9th version of their operating system today.
8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) will be supported until 2010 and includes a new default theme and a raft of other improvements.
Ive been using it for a while as a beta and I really like it.
Keep us the good work!
For those of you who dont know. Mark Shuttleworth is a South-African entrepreneur. He made his money during the dot com boom of the late 90′s, but was one of the very few people who was shrewed enough not to loose it all again when the bubble burst.
Shuttleworth instigated the Ubuntu Linux project and continues to fund it out of his own pocket to this day. Im quite a Ubuntu fan and as an extension of that, a fan of Shuttleworth himself. He has a great ethos in regards to operating systems and software, and stands by keeping Ubuntu free for everyone.
Anyway, he’s recently been interviewed abd I thought it was an interesting read.
You can find it here.
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I’ve finally decided to do something I’ve been planning o do for a long while now, move over to using Linux as my full time OS at work.
I’d class myself as a Linux ‘power user’ if there is such a thing. I’ve been using Linux in its various flavours since about 1998 (the days when one false move would obliterate your Windows partition), and I manage various Linux servers for clients at work.
Now firstly, If i could, I’d also be running Linux as my full time OS at home right now, but the machine is shared with my wife and kids who might find it a bit disconcerting and secondly Im sadly quite hooked on Vista Media Centre, but thats another story…
My work laptop is a fairly powerfull machine and has ben running Windows Vista. Now dont get me wrong, Im actually getting quite used to Vista and I’m no MS hater (Im actually MCP certified x 3), but I seem to find all the bugs and performance annoyances with it. Random application hangs, slow startup and shutdown speeds to name a few.
I installed Linux as a dual boot on the laptop last week and so far theres only a couple of minor issues. I chose Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) as Ubuntu has been my Distro of choice for the past couple of years. Its very straight forward to install. Stick in the CD and it boots live, from there you can play around with the system and see how it works etc. Theres an icon on the Desktop which you click to install Ubuntu to the harddisk, and after a couple of steps you can relax for 20 mins while it installs. (It will also detect any windows installations and add them to the boot loader).
Now, the only downside in the corporate environment is the lack of an email client that can talk MAPI to Exchange 2007. Evolution supports Exchange 2003, but we recently upgradded to 2007 in our office. At present im using IMAP to connect Evolution to Exchange 2007, but apparently there is an Exchange 2007 plugin on the way, I await it with baited breath…
Apart from that everything else is pretty sweet, I especially like the compiz composite desktop stuff. I have all the tools I need to manage remote machines, (ssh built in by default of course and Terminal Services client). I’ve also managed to join the laptop onto our windows domain using a new tool called likewise-open, this allows me to logon to the laptop using my domain credentials which then allows me to access server objects without having to enter my password a ton of times.
Looks like Linux is here to stay.
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Im getting so bored with people saying how crap Linux and Unix are.
I use various forums on a regular basis, and everynow and then this topic pops up.
The problem is that people dont relize what Linux and Unix are and what they currently do in regards to the worlds IT infrastructure.
Linux is one of the most widely deployed and flexible server operating systems there is.
Between them, Linux and Unix power just over 50% of the worlds web servers, and between 60-70% of the worlds DNSÂ servers, FACT!
I’ll say it once tho, ITÂ ISN’T, ANDÂ NEVERÂ WILLÂ BE A DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEM!
This is the reason people moan about it being shit, they are trying to use it as a freebie windows replacement, which is isnt!
Theres a reason why Windows is the worls number 1 desktop OS, and thats because Microsoft plow billions of dollars into it.
Stop being tight, buy a windows license and stop bloody moaning.
Use Linux for what its designed for and its a brilliant platform.
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