If you are looking for a good Desktop OS, Ununtu Linux might be the way to go. Currently I’m dual-booting Linspire and Windows, but will be trying out the Ununtu LiveCD once my DVD drive is repaired.
Here’s a couple of interesting pieces I’ve come across recently related to Ubuntu:
- Review on ZDNet UK, as part of a wider face-off of Desktop Linux for small business.
- A great account on the O’Reilly Network by Jeremy Jones on his experience installing and configuring Ubuntu on his laptop.
I’m running dual boot (windows and ubuntu 5.10) on my home pc (but I’m not using ubuntu on daily basis)… I had many problems updating ubuntu from 5.04 to 5.10, but “clean install” worked well. Version 5.10 has a nasty bug in keyboard settings (you have to apply a workaround to X11 in order to use a different keyboard language layout). Otherwise it looks quite good, except for some menus, which include many unneeded items (yes, there’s a menu manager, but you still have to use the “advanced” mode and that’s the synaptic package manager, so the menu manager is actually useless). And don’t forget to download libstdc++5 for Thunderbird/Firefox 1.5… :)
I use 5.10 at home and work [home an upgrade from Hoary/work clean Breezy install]
There are some idiosyncrasies between the two …