CompHobby!Occasional ramblings of a somewhat older male tech enthusiast.Some Thoughts On Something I Said- April 18, 2008 The statement in question is in my last piece about the Ubuntu release cycle versus hardware requirements (longevity) as opposed to let just say Microsoft release cycle versus hardware requirements (longevity) and my comment was...some other OS products seem more like they are out to consume the current installed hardware capabilities of average userThe only reason I am bring this up is because there is an excellent article at InfoWorld about this which gives a Windows OSWindows Office...http://comphobby.org/archives/164-Some-Thoughts-On-Something-I-Said.html Ubuntu 8.04 Beta- April 17, 2008 Well as almost always I decided to give the latest beta release from Ubuntu a try. I always start from scratch just like someone trying it out for the first time might do it. As usual I burned two CD images the i386 desktop and the alternate install ones. My experience has been that only one time I have been able to get the desktop image fully booted and installed. This foray proved no different than what I am generally used to. I just gave up I didn't want to spend hours with the task and used.http://comphobby.org/archives/163-Ubuntu-8.04-Beta.html |