Ubuntu - It's an African word that means "Humanity for others." Embraces the spirit of the open source movement, but it's a bit corny. Posted on 04/26/2007 6:47:50 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Other tech sites will bore you with in-depth "technical details" and performance specs in their product analysis. At BBspot we pull back from the boring benchmarks to compare the superficialities, and we do it all on a single page.
For years many have predicted the death of Windows at the hands of Linux. The latest challenge to Windows comes from Ubuntu. Since everyone has long made up their minds in which operating system to use, we compare these two operating systems on the features that don't matter. Read on to find out if your favorite wins...
Ubuntu - It's an African word that means "Humanity for others." Embraces the spirit of the open source movement, but it's a bit corny.
Vista - It's what you would see looking through your Windows (or outside if you weren't wasting time on your computer). Clever.
Advantage - Vista
Ubuntu.com - Lands you at the home page for the Ubuntu distribution. Choosing a name like Ubuntu means the domain will be available.
Vista.com - Takes you to the page for a company that provides "online services for businesses." That's what you get for choosing a common word as product name.
Advantage - Ubuntu
Ubuntu - 50%
Vista - 66%
Advantage - Ubuntu
The best two out of three wins...
Vista has every driver you will ever need - 1,110,000 results
Ubuntu has every driver you will ever need - 554,000 results
For driver support Vista is the clear winner.
Winner: Vista
Vista banged your sister - 66,100
Ubuntu banged your sister - 63,200
Close, but...
Winner: Ubuntu
I'm in your Vista killing your processes - 958,000
I'm in your Ubuntu killing your processes - 254,000
Ubuntu triumphs in security.
Winner: Ubuntu
Advantage: Ubuntu
If the only two flavors left at Ben and Jerry's were Ubuntu or Vista, which would you eat?
Ubuntu - With that name, the brown chunks might be zebra droppings. Might not be the best choice.
Vista - It's green and minty fresh. If you can get over the grass clippings, you'll enjoy it.
Advantage: Vista
Which operating system needed a completely made up category to give it a victory, so the competition appeared fairer?
Advantage: Vista
The virtual coin flipper was used at random.org. I chose the Swiss Franc 1 to maintain neutrality.
Ubuntu - Heads
Vista - Tails
Results: H-T-T-H-T-H-T-H-H-T-H
Advantage: Ubuntu
Ubuntu beats Vista by a score of 4-3. It looks like Microsoft's perch at the top might be coming to an end. Ubuntu wins our Technical Award of Excellence.
How about the disk? Or PSU? I've had problems with both dying slow deaths on old machines.
The HD was slave to the DVD/CD drive, and it stopped the DVD from doing everything but being recognized. Disco'd the HD, and the DVD worked.
With the PSU, the DVD/CD drive would randomly error.
You mihgt find qemu easier
My guess would be the boot loader is not getting laid down right, are you sure you have completely wiped the disk before or while installing?
I use it at school pretty much just to run OS/2 Warp...
Qemu is better, IMHO...
I hope Ubuntu blows MS away. The Indians need to hire more people as tech support.
BTW, any of you Linux rednecks ever run Railroad Tycoon? Picked up a boxed copy off ebay for a buck. Now I just have to figure out what distro to install in a VM to play it.
It's a Compaq Presario with a screaming PII-266MHz processor and, wait for it, 256MB of RAM. Look out world! :)
I don't particularly relish the idea of doing two installs...
You won't do two installs; first you install 6.06 and then when you go to the software update tool, there will be an option for distribution update. Click that button, and (assuming you've got broadband) go away for a few hours. You'll return to a box that has upgraded to 6.10. Not too painful, actually. In addition, my 6.10 installation is asking if I want to go to 7.x, but I'm not ready for that yet.
Pretty clear to me who wins based on the parameters examined.
How about the disk? Or PSU? I've had problems with both dying slow deaths on old machines.
The HD was slave to the DVD/CD drive, and it stopped the DVD from doing everything but being recognized. Disco'd the HD, and the DVD worked.
With the PSU, the DVD/CD drive would randomly error."
It's a laptop so there's not a lot he can mess around with on it. The default Ubuntu install cd is also a live CD hence the large RAM requirement.
His best bet is probably to look in some of the linux on laptops guides on the net and find out which flavor works best on his.
No problem, I’m happy to help a fellow Granite Stater. I hope it works for you.
Actually, what they were comparing was “what percent of total letters are consonants”, with a lower percentage considered better. XP SP2 would have done even worse than Vista.
LOL no kidding. And still delusional as Apple and Microsoft keep announcing record profits every quarter, both again in the last few days.
No, but not finding an as is not really a Linux problem per se its a boot loader problem. Is this a laptop? or a machine with multiple disk?
For some reason the computer is not finding the boot loader? do you put /boot on an lvm or raid device?
as far as installable OS XP has that hands down. once any distro can come close to that i think there will be a major change in the OS user landscape.
i’m a real big fan of pclinuxos but their lastest offering is suffering greatly. another problem linux has is a rush to release instead of perfecting what they have. once that FINALLY get something that is stable they dump it and move on.
I’m using Mandriva 2007 Powerpack (A payed for version) right now, I have tried others but keep coming back.
I have had the best luck with Mandriva.
I've got Parallels on my Mac laptop, with XP Pro for a accessing and viewing some websites. Seems to work great, and the Windows install was actually easier than doing an XP install as a base OS. Go figure. VMWare has a freeware program that will also do this. The latest Macworld has a comparison of the various multi/dual boot programs.
How that all translates into a *nix/XP generic box, I can't say.
bttt for tracking purposes
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