Title: What is the your favorite version of Linux or Ubuntu? Source:
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What is the your favorite version of Linux or Ubuntu?
Playing around with Linux Ubuntu on an old laptop and trying to decide which one to use.
Linux is known to run great on older hardware.
There are tons of them. My biggest headache will be drivers for my wireless NIC and printer.
For an old laptop Puppy linux would be good because it's fast on computers with low RAM, slow processor and it is very small so it wouldn't take up much room on a small hardrive.
Thanks. This Dell 1150 has 2GB and a P4 2.8ghz cpu. I have two laptops and three desktops up and running, and just wanted to see how far Linux had evolved since the last time I delved into it a few years ago. It's come a long way!
It runs Win7 "ok", but just wanted a bit more snappiness. Not running aero, since the embedded Intel GPU won't support it.
Installed latest Ubuntu, and all the hardware was fine except for the wireless devices. I have a USB wireless NIC and printer. Couldn't get the drivers to install for the USB NIC. Pretty common for Linux.
A great OS, especially for servers.
Win8 is rumored to be less hardware dependent thatn Win7 is.
Oh well, in that case the latest ubuntu would be the best I guess. Too bad about the wireless hardware not working. I know that's a common problem with linux and webcams too.
FWIW, the only clean way to uninstall UBUNTU on a Win7 install I found was to delete the UBUNTU partition under Win7 disk manager, reboot off Win7 DVD into sys restore - > command prompt -> Bootrec.exe /Fixmbr
Then delete the partition UBUNTU was installed on and recover the space back in control panel/disk mgr.
Those of you who are running Linux as a double boot OS under Windows XP, Vista or 7 should probably use another GPL Free software app, Virtual BOX to run it as a guest OS under Windows on a virtual computer. Saves the problems of having to use the rescue system to fix up messes associated with double booting talked about here. A virtual BOX virtual computer is just another piece of Windows Software that can be de installed (even though it is running another OS) if you no longer wish to use it.
I'm currently running Windows Vista with Mandriva Linux and Windows 98 (for win apps that can't run under Vista because of age) virtual Computers in Virtual BOX.
Virtual BOX to run it as a guest OS under Windows on a virtual computer. Saves the problems of having to use the rescue system to fix up messes associated with double booting talked about here.
Thanks. You're right, except in the case where VMWare (virtual devices) overhead bogs down the advantages of the speed gains Linux has over Windows or Mac.
I run a 3.6 ghz quad core Intel CPU with 16gb of 1600 DDR3 DRAM, over 6TB of disks, and an ATI 6970 video card with 2GB of DDR5 dram on Win7 Ultimate.
I could easily run several virtual OS and have them loaded in RAM, or quickly loaded if desired. But I had rather just have one OS on any machine.
Overkill, to say the least.
The next iteration of Ubuntu I think though is going to give Windows and Mac the best run for the money yet. The first one to run fastest on the oldest installed hardware base will get the prize, IMO.
The future belongs to tablets running Android or Apple's iOS.
Sometime in the next year, half of all computer sales will be tablets.
As for the need for a desktop to sync your tunes and vids, Apple is doing the Cloud thing. So you can sync/store/backup everything to their only service for $25 a year. A lot cheaper than keeping a modern mid-range desktop machine around. Android and Microsoft and others will follow suit.
The cellphone generation doesn't want landlines. Or to be tethered to desktop machines.
You can argue all you want but the real question is when this all happens, not if it happens.
Actually, these tablets have outstanding battery life and are starting to use custom non-Intel multicore CPUs and fairly powerful video chipsets.
The hardware that a few years were standard on a desktop machine are now possible on tablets with a 10-hour battery life and cellular high-speed ineternet.
All we have to sacrifice is about two years of performance gains. Since the hardware was already ridiculously overpowered, people will barely notice the transition except in terms of the GUI. The decline of the mouse and traditional keyboard for example.
The cloud will own the world.
Clouds. There will be a number of clouds and you'll be able to move some of your archives between them. Google is well-situated. Google may also try to offer a cloud that supports the importing of Apple's cloud content so that they can sever the key link between Apple's hardware and iTunes.