Ubuntu convert
After weeks of bullying from my pod mate Russell, followed by a great two pronged sales job from Scott and Dan, I thought I should at least have a look at the new version of Ubuntu.
So armed with Russ’ 8.10 CD I gave it a whirl, booting from the CD without installing it properly. I tried it first on my old T42 Thinkpad and it was up and running without any intervention. OK, I’m partially impressed.
Now the real test, would it cope with my 5 year old Evesham desktop?
Simple – it went on a treat, recognised all the bits (external harddrive, wired internet) – I’m now very impressed.
Plan is to buy a Mac in the new year and then turn the Windows box into Ubuntu. My daughter is not impressed as Linux doesn’t have MSN (at least that’s what I’m telling her – and will keep it like that as I think MSN has been responsible for 90% of the viruses on our box)
So count me as a new Ubuntu fan…..
Happy Christmas to both our reader. See you all again in 2009
December 20th, 2008 at 12:45
So you might not want to tell her this…
From the Ubuntu desktop click Applications -> Internet -> Pidgin Internet Messenger
Now you have a multi-protocol messaging client that works with MSN messsenger. I’m not sure it supports video & audio conferencing at the moment, but I can guarantee it’ll be a lot safer running on your system than MSN messenger.
If I don’t see you around… Merry Christmas!!
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:24
Excellent news that you want to join us on the Mac side, Jon
and Ubuntu is lovely too, I’m running it on my home automation server now and it is working well. Like Scott says though, you can connect up to MSN Messenger / Windows Live Messenger from Pidgin – and you shouldn’t need to worry about viruses spread through Messenger to a Linux machine.
January 13th, 2009 at 02:07
While Pidgin might be great for Facebook chat / Twitter updates / ICQ / AIM / Yahoo, it doesn’t compare with aMSN. Check it out.
January 15th, 2009 at 09:12
aMSN looks good – thanks for the tip