By rlamarch
via lifehacker.com
Published: Apr 25 2008 / 20:24
If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release that will be supported until 2011, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before. No hard drives to re-organize, no dual-boot setup—just pop an Ubuntu desktop CD in while Windows is running, and you'll get an option to install Ubuntu—inside Windows.
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Tags: unix-linux, windows
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herval replied ago:
Worth another look. Again....
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Kenneth Downs replied ago:
I've been running Linux on the desktop since about 2001 and Ubuntu for the past 2 years or so. In all of that time I've never missed Windows. Oddly enough the only thing that has ever frustrated me continuously is that Linux is very secure, which makes for some confusion on web development. If you use code generation, you end up with conflicting permissions between yourself and the web server. They can be overcome easily and permanently, but the solution is far from obvious for the newbie.
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