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The windows Killer – Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is released
The latest release of Ubuntu was released recently and I upgraded my Microsoft free laptop to the latest build to see what you get.
At first I was a bit worried about upgrading as I was on version 8, and not version 9 as this for some reason would not install cleanly.
I followed the instructions on the ubuntu website and 1 hour later I had Lucid Lynx installed and working. The first thing that I noticed was the speed of the operating system. I was never happy with this in version 8 as websites heavy in javascript where taking a time to load. But with version 10 the login screen appears in lightning speed, even faster than an iphone at starting up.
The upgrade also fixed the issue of none of my browser except for opera being able to run Flash. But now I can return to my Firefox with web developer toolbar again.
The integration with social networks is also a new feature, with the all in one messaging system from empathy. It allows me to be logged into facebook messenger, yahoo, msn etc all at once.
The biggest change for me was moving the maximise and minimise buttons to the top left just like the mac. Takes a little getting used too.
All in all the latest version of Ubuntu is worth upgrading to and at this rate will not be moving back to Windows soon. Only thing now is that I need filezilla functionality to be the same as the PC version and notepadd++ ported over without using Wine.
I am now Microsoft Free at home
Over the weekend I decided to reinstall a new operating system on my home laptop. This was because windows xp had started to grind to a very slow speed and it was taking an age just to start firefox and my email. It got to the point were I just did not turn my computer off in order to save time. So I decided to do a Matt Cutts and try and run my home office Microsoft free.
I chose Ubuntu as my operating system and downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 as an ISO file which could be burned. I had to do this on another computer as my CD drive was knackered. This posed a problem with installing as I had no CD drive. So I had the option of taking the hard drive out and installing into a laptop with a working CD. But luckily my father in law has the same laptop and I just swapped the drives around.
Now for some reason 9.10 would not install as it caused the installation procedure to crash and remain incomplete. So I started again with Ubuntu version 8.04 which has long term support. This installed cleaning without any problems.
Once configured I installed the following apps to get me into a developer ready mode.
- Wine for installing windows 32 apps.
- Open Office for Microsoft Office
- GIMP for photoshop
- Filezilla
- Heidi over WINE
- Notepad++ over WINE
- gphpedit
I also use syncplicity on windows to keep my password database syncronised between home and the office. Ubuntu provide their own app call Ubuntu One which gives you 2GB free space. But the do not have a Windows client for the office. Also Syncplicity uses .net 3.0 framework, which cannot be installed over wine. So I will be know on the look for a windows/linux client for file syncing.
All this took me a good part of Sunday to complete. But the final result is a very fast old laptop with all the features I need to carry on developing.
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