Anyone use it? If so, what are your thoughts? Later, QD.
ubuntu is cool,but if you want a better experience and more visually appealing linux OS,go and download kubuntu.
I use it and love it. Buts its not for everyone. There's a pretty drastic learning curve coming from Windows or OSX.
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I ran it on a secondary rig for a while. It's good for office/school work or browsing the internet, thats about it.
I've only been dual or triple booting for about 2 years but I would never go back. The stupid things about Windows are avoided, although I never got Wine to run any games. I played with virtualization a bit, but then went back to physical partitions again. Ubuntu and Windows 7 at the moment. It's stripped, it's only what you want it to be (which is good and bad) and it is intuitive.
Ehh I'll take Gnome over KDE any day of the week.
now that i know a few basic commands and could navigate my way around a linux enviroment, i dont know what the hell to use it for. i dont have a need for a mail, web, file or app server...
It's definitely better than Windows if all your doing is browsing the net. It uses FAR less resources than any new version of windows, so you will see a drastic improvement in load/boot times. You can partition your drive to try it out before you totally go the Unix route. It is a lot different than Windows, but Ubuntu is by far the easiest, and probably the best, Linux distro to start with.
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i would only use linux on a file server that i wouldn't operate.
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QD ignore the people here who throw in their useless opinion when they don't even use linux.
I deal with linux machines all day at work, and most of them are Ubuntu. All I have to say is that it is more then just a "general" OS, or a "file server that I wouldn't operate". It is an extremely powerful and stable OS option, its great for internet machines. It tends to be faster then windows on the same machine. Ubuntu has made great strides to setup a distro that needs to have nothing else added. That being said there is a learning curve and some things will need to be installed manually. IE video codecs, let me know if you need some help getting started and I would be glad to point you in the right direction.
PS The latest version 9.10 is really SWEET!
I've been wondering about Ubuntu as well. I was thinking about putting it on a flash and f12-ing that beyotch just to try it out without deleting windows.
have all the bugs been worked out of v9.10?the last i had heard and read was that they were pushing back the release date because of some issues they were having with it.
For a while i couldnt even get the 9.1 live cd to boot. Didn't like my RAID array but i never had any problems wit 9.04.
Ive never had an issue with any other install than 9.10 with my softraid. 9.04 worked fine with it.
i heard flash drives boot MUCH faster. any truth to that?
SSD drives do boot faster. generally flash drives are USB, they won't boot faster than a standard hard drive.
Try reading anything on the raid drivers with the newer kernel. We use it with hardware raid controllers at work and no issues.
When I owned a desktop at home I had to do some juggling to get 8.10 to work with the software raid. I haven't really messed with it since I sold my PC.
QD I run Ubuntu on both my custom built PC that is five years old and on my EEE PC 1000hd laptop. It really does run faster than Windows. My only issue is moving from the software I use. Going from photoshop to GIMP really was a downgrade - I don't like it as much. There is a slight learning curve, but if you know how to use google and read you'll be able to find guides to help you with anything. Overall, I really like Ubuntu. The latest update, karmic koala (9.10) is working nicely for me and it looks better than Windows IMO.
Also - to comment on the issue of software raid controllers - I would suggest using hardware controllers. Like previously stated, software ones sometimes fail.
At some point any raid will fail