Washington Post reviews Ubuntu 10.04...

[Sporkman]

Ubuntu 10.04 brings Linux closer to the mainstream

By ROB PEGORARO
Sunday, May 30, 2010

No Windows viruses. Free. Any questions?

Of course. Start with this one: How can an operating system with those virtues, the open-source Linux, remain confined to a tiny minority of desktop and laptop computers at home?

Linux may run TiVo video recorders and live inside Android phones, in addition to running much of the Internet's servers, but it still lags on home PCs.

Will that change anytime soon? A new version of a consumer-oriented edition of Linux, Ubuntu (http://ubuntu.com), offers hope for Linux optimists but leaves room for doubters, too...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052801412.html

[kamaboko]

Too bad he installed it on an old Sony Vaio. Those just blow to begin with.

[pwnst*r]

Pretty much spot on.

[pwnst*r]

Too bad he installed it on an old Sony Vaio. Those just blow to begin with.

Maybe you need to first understand what "months old" really means.

[kamaboko]

Maybe you need to first understand what "months old" really means.

No, actually I don't. My statement still stands. Vaio's blow.

[-grubby]

No, actually I don't. My statement still stands. Vaio's blow.

It doesn't matter, if Windows works well on it.

[McRat]

Sony Vaio's are "pre-bricked" at the factory.

If their cases were built up to normal industry standards, at least they would make a good wheel-chock to keep your car from rolling, but they aren't even good at that.

I've never seen a new PC that was as unstable as a new Vaio. Total garbage.

[splicerr]

From the article:



Evolution, as bloated and sluggish as Microsoft Outlook


I couldn't agree more.

[pwnst*r]

No, actually I don't. My statement still stands. Vaio's blow.

Nothing like a little bias, right?