Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?
cwhamsun
ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu May 4 05:48:41 UTC 2006
Replaced windows 2000(AMD Athlon 1.2ghz 512mb ram) on a machine I had
not been using with dapper, was planning to set this machine up as
server for home network for awhile just havent had time. Have had the
machine booting fedora and suse and maybe RHEL 3 at different points in
the past, but like ubuntu much better, may dual boot it with ubuntu and
fedora and RHEL since I occasionally do some side work for ex employer
with RHEL machine of theirs. They had RHEL 3 for about 2 years and no
one installed it on machines their besides the server I set up as far
as I know, but I gave them a copy of dapper and they have installed it
on at least one machine AFAIK and seem very impressed with the ease of
install and whole distro overall. Have put it on my thinkpad and would
use it as the sole OS on that If I could but need some XP functionality
for some things. Also plan to install on my main desktop at home when I
get a chance (AMD Sempron 2.0ghz socket A, 512mb ram) but will have to
dual boot with xp on that also, although I'm sure I will barely use
windows. Also installed it on my brothers machine (pentium II 350mhz(?)
256mb ram) he is only an email/websurfer type, and has no complaints so
far, unlike with win 98 he was always complaining about something. He
is pretty much an all around non-computer user but not totally computer
newbie, and he seems to like it and has had no questions so far about
how to use it, that is what is impressive to me, I can set up a box for
someone like that and not have to mess with virus/spyware/firewall
software maintainance. I think alot of people I introduce it to will
now be linux users, I haven't had this kind of interest or willingness
to try something new(non windows) from suse or fedora/redhat in the
past.
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cwhamsun
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