I just installed 10.04 on an HP mini (using it now). Is the server edition that far behind the curve or are you just being conservative?
BTW, I frikkin love Ubuntu. It's going to seep into the market quietly over the next couple/few years. I'm so glad to see Gates and Jobs having some of their market taken away, even if it's only a couple of percentage points.
If you use Ubuntu as a notebook/desktop, check out Guake if you're unfamiliar with it:
If you use Ubuntu as a notebook/desktop, check out Guake if you're unfamiliar with it:
http://guake.org
Meh. Guake doesn't look that special to me. I can't see anything there that Snow Leopard's terminal doesn't do. Not that SL's terminal is so special either.
But this reminds me of a complaint I have had for years about Linux: they use repulsive and nonsensical names that absolutely repel those who might switch to Linux. Guake sounds like the lizard people from Planet X. Or a gay version of Quake.
Linux will never go anywhere until it adopts common descriptive names for its basic utilities. Like "Notepad", "Terminal", etc. Grandma and Cousin Jed are never ever going to run a program with a name like Guake.
The Linux folk are nerds and think these obscure names are wonderful. Well, maybe for nerds. But I'm pretty nerdy and I don't like these names either. They're just flat-out annoying. This is a major reason for the failure of Linux on the desktop, along with the ongoing rivalry and issues surrounding the Gnome versus KDE desktops and libraries (hey, Linux guys, pick ONE!).
As far as the geeky names go, the problem is that Linux with it's vast open source development base, has a dozen different software packages available for any single application need, and simple names like "notepad" just aren't available.
The only thing I like about Guake (and I couldn't care less about app names, as long as they suit my purpose) is that f12 is easier to hit than alt-tab. As Larry Wall said, laziness is a trait of a potentially good coder. I'm a crummy coder but a fairly decent situational hacker so I like the plethora of solutions that Linux offers. Windows leaves one limited and OS X has more options but still leaves one stuck in Jobsland when push comes to shove.
Grandma and Cousin Jed are never ever going to run a program with a name like Guake.
If Grandma and Jed ever got on the command line, I'd be shocked and stoked.
Linux will never go anywhere until it adopts common descriptive names for its basic utilities.
Linux is already going somewhere. Plus, you're free to change one line of code in a package, or none, and repackage it with another name and no one will sue you.