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Ubuntu version 9.10 Linux Operating System (due for release 29th October)
STARTS: 29/10/2009
A complete operating system for your PC for £0. Much cheaper than Microsoft Windows 7 plus more features than 7, all free. Just download and burn to CD! You can even try before you install without making any changes to your PC! Arguably the best Linux distribution currently available. It is as easy to install as a Microsoft OS, for most PC's it will recognise all your hardware on installation. In the unlikely event something does not work there is a large user base and Google usually comes up trumps with an easy to understand solution. A good, lean, secure, and virus-free alternative to Windows! Ideal for Netbooks and older spec PC's that may struggle with Windows.
Comes with OpenOffice, a viable alternative to Microsoft Office for most users and able to open and save to Microsoft's formats. Also features a searchable Software centre with lots of free software for a variety of purposes. For almost anything you want to do, or could do with a Windows PC, the software is there! A good range of games is also available. And if you miss some of your windows apps there's even WINE, a free WINdows Emulator - but if you're not willing to make the jump straight over to Linux just yet, you can install it next to Windows and choose which loads each time the PC starts.
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I'm using 9.02 atm and apart from a few flash issues that I had to play about with, I can't fault it on any machine.
If you have an old computer or laptop that is too slow for even Win 2k or XP, Ubuntu should run fast enough on it. And, if anyone is half interested in it but scared of installing while they have windows you can do two things with the disc, you can play about with it before installing with the disc as like a live demo with the disc in and/or you can install on some free space you have on your HDD already without having to split the HDD yourself or un-install winblows. The install is simple and quick - I'd say give yourself about 10GB of free space though (the install is typically 699MB however) I say to everyone who uses their computer every day, try it for a week and you aren't convince then go back - at least you tried. But for people who might use their computer only once or twice a week I wouldn't say its worth trying to learn a new tool you don't use much. ubuntuforums.com will answer any question you want without becoming all tech-snob on you. The community there are more than happy to help anything as long as you do a search first as it'll of probably of already been answered anyway  |
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scrumpypaul:
i'm wondering if they'll do a koala remix?  |
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