7 Months with Ubuntu
About a year ago, Microsoft released Windows Vista, its most ambitious desktop platform to date. It's a great improvement over Windows XP primarily because it brings better security to the overall OS.
Makers of Linux platforms are improving their desktop OSs too. One company making huge leaps forward is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. In April 2007, Canonical released Ubuntu 7.04, code-named Feisty Fawn. Prior to the release of 7.04, I'd tested Ubuntu and found it somewhat acceptable for my needs but not exceptionally great mainly because it didn't recognize some of my particular hardware and I didn't want to spend much time finding and installing drivers.
In early June 2007, I finally got around to giving Ubuntu another look (using a bootable Live CD) and was pleasantly surprised. The new OS recognized all my hardware immediately, including my printers, wired Ethernet cards, and half a dozen different Wi-Fi cards. I then poked around the desktop a little bit and discovered that almost all the tools I need for day-to-day work are either already installed by default or are available for easy Internet-based installation with a few clicks of the mouse. It was at that point that Ubuntu really got my attention. I found myself thinking that I could quickly install Ubuntu along with all the tools I need and take the OS for an extended long-term test drive. And that's exactly what I did.
When I began the test drive, the questions I had in mind were, "Can I use this OS as my everyday desktop?" and "Can it effectively replace my Windows desktop?"
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