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Brand: Canonical EAN: 0890655001152 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Canonical Manufacturer: Canonical Platform: Linux Publisher: Canonical Release Date: October 18, 2007 Studio: Canonical Features:
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 Rating:  - not too shabby, kind of a headache, get 8.04I procured my copy of ubuntu directly from canonical about 2 months ago, after a few weeks of messing around with it I decided to wait for the lts release. the program itself is awesome, its efficient aesthetically pleasing and most certainly superior to windows. Unfortunately 7.10 is notorious for having issues with propreitary hardware from HP Pavillion laptops. I fought with my broadcom drivers for about 2 weeks trying to get them to work. and the nvidia. In the end I was still having issues with ... Read More Rating:  - Great OS if it matches your system. Get 8.04 instead.I tried 7.10 a few weeks ago but had a few monitor problems. Some monitor types it doesn't recognise. I first tried it with a live boot up CD and I just got a load of rubbish on the monitor. I found that if I rebooted but pressed F1 and chose one of the options which allowed me to enter commands (I entered [live vga=771 noapic nolapic] it booted up fine with no monitor problems. But not a practical option. I now use the new Ubuntu version 8.04 which I have no problems with. It's the ... Read More Rating:  - the bestIf I were just learning Ubuntu and had subsequent experience with Window Vista, It would be difficult for me to understand why anyone would even consider the latter OS as preferable, given the vast array of Linux software at minimal if any expense compared to the constant, time consuming, and budget breaking upkeep of Windows programs and the price of many additional applications one may wish to add. Open source software and Linux have provided the opposite experience. Happily my Windows Vista crashed ... Read More Rating: - Ubuntu 7.1I installed it in a virtual machine. It works fine, but the virtual software has some issues. I'm using this as a learning tool on using Linux. So far, so so. Rating: - Just Keeps Getting Better and BetterI am a graduate student of astronomy and I started using personal computers in 1981 and that was one of the first IBM PCs with DOS. Until summer of 2005, I used Windows exclusively, but then started looking for something better in the form of Linux/Free Unix. December of 2007, I switched my home network over to Ubuntu Linux and purchased a Dell computer with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. That was the last time I touched a Windows computer: Best things about switching to Ubuntu Linux: Read More |
