Windows 7 is here in 2 days, and I'm on Ubuntu again :)

Ok, so I haven't totally ditched Windows 7...but considering how few problems I have had and the fact that I have been running it for quite some time on my home computer, I decided to start playing around with the new Ubuntu 9.10 Beta release on my work laptop.

Thus far, everything is going very smootly. Running Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit on my Dell E6400 laptop and about 30 minutes into it, the box is installed, patched, sound, Nvidia video and broadcom wireless is working. My IRC clients are setup, my Instant Messengers configured, my plug-ins for Firefox installed, video codecs and flash player installed. Movies are playing in VLC, MP3's play, I'm connected to my Windows shares. All of this without any cdkeys or activation. You gotta love that.

I know that most of us are die-hard Windows fanatics, but I know we have some Linux fans here as well. It's good stuff.

Yeah, I think it's 9 more days until it's officially out. I maintain a Comprehensive Setup guide for Ubuntu on a number of forums, so I usually start working on it a week or two out to try to get some of the new changes covered so that I can just do a run through with the final release and make sure all is working. Thus far, it's much the same as before....however I have had to rework a few things. (new file system by default = ext4, new grub (now grub2) and my cdripper of choice (grip) is no longer being maintained and has been removed from the distro....so now using rubyripper).

I also on Ubuntu 9.10, and running Ubunbtu since 7.04 I just love it, but in fact Im linked to Windows because of most of the programas I use.

I just love Ubunbtu 9.10 but I prefer KDE

i was playing around with a puppy live disc on a friends pc yesterday, as his xp wouldn't boot.

he was totally fed up with xp, so i talked him into trying out linux mint (which is heavily based on ubuntu, but comes with codecs and fonts etc) - again, the install well flawlessly, and my friend seems to be enjoying it so far...

man, don't talk to me about xorg.conf...