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Ubuntu 8.10 |  | From: Canonical
Category: Software
List Price: $12.99
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 766
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Linux
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Linux
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 00121
Model: 890655001213
ISBN: 3937514775
UPC: 890655001213
EAN: 9783937514772
ASIN: 3937514775
Release Date: October 30, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Award-winning Linux operating system with complete set of open source applications for desktops, laptops, and servers | | • | Office productivity suite, Web browser, and email for your everyday needs | | • | Instant messaging, image editing, and various tools for accessing and managing your multimedia files | | • | Free security updates delivered via the Internet for 18 months on the desktop and server | | • | Comprehensive DVD with desktop and server installation, alternate installation (e.g., OEM install), plus all of the supported add-on software and translations for dozens of languages |
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 Best Linux Operating System Ever December 5, 2008
Shawn Vega (San Diego, Ca. United States)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
Ok just so you guys know I've tried several Linux distros before including fedora, puppy linux, debian, knoppix and others. So far this is the best. it is the most user friendly, when you need a plugin it tells you and installs it for you. if you try any linux distro try this one. but one of the great things about it is that if you have acess to broadband you don't even have to pay for it you can download it for free from their web site (although if you pay for the box set you do get some tech support). but if you do need help along the way you can also get free help on thier web fourms or mailing lists.
if you've used windows before it's easy enough to learn but remember it's not windows. linux has it's strengths and weaknesses. example of strength: linux doesn't get viruses. example of weakness: it only runs some windows programs (although there are usually free alternatives)
Ubuntu Linux 8.10 December 24, 2008
Paul A. Dupre
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Wonderful Linux distro! So easy to install and use, everything just works beautifully and all the software is free! This Linux is way more user friendly than Windows. It runs really fast on my old IBM Thinkpad notebook. The software came nicely packaged and arrived sooner than promised. Nice job, guys!
Paul in Southern California
Windows -- Watch Your Back! January 18, 2009
MagnumMan (Florida)
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
Before I start, let me state I've been a computer techie for the last 20+ years. When I first started Windows was only a dream and you had your choice of DOS and IBM compatible (both of which were really the same thing in the broadest definition).
Needless to say, things have changed slightly. You now have Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with DOS still hanging on for dear life (and if you're a real techie, try UNIX).
I gave up on Windows when Vista came out and although I like OS X, Apple's stranglehold on computers running their OS has made that proposition a tad expensive.
Enter Linux, the poor man's Windows. Yes, you can get a thousand different flavors but Ubuntu is probably one of the best (along with Suse) for each of use.
For example:
* I recently had a computer which had Vista installed. Something corrupted the OS and the manufacturer was nice enough to send me an install disk when their built in rescue partition failed. After 4 hours of waiting and answering numerous inane questions I finally had my computer back once I popped in the installation disk. The only problem was it no longer recognized the video and sound cards nor would it acknowledge the wireless card. I downloaded the necessary drivers from the manufacturer only to have Vista reject them. After a few more hours of tweaking and just about losing my religion I finally got things working. That lasted about two weeks before the OS got funky again and started losing programs such as Quicken and the final straw was when it couldn't find my printer even though it was right there in the printers dialog box.
* As luck would have it, I have ordered an Ubuntu disk from the manufacturer and had just received it. From the time I popped it in until the time it was ready took roughly 20 minutes. Yes, 20 minutes! It not only recognized my NVIDIA video card and Broadcom wireless card it even downloaded the drivers to make sure both worked. I then tempted fate and plugged in my Samsung USB laser printer. Nothing happened, or so I thought. Upon looking I realized it had found the printer and had already installed it! Took all of about 5 seconds!
For those of you who are afraid to abandon Windows for Ubuntu you can go two ways -- the live CD or merely tell Ubuntu to partition the disk so you can still keep Windows. Simple as that!
By the way, you have to option to install a bazillion free programs (actually closer to 5,000), many of which emulate comparable Windows programs. You'd probably spend closer to $50,000 to get the similar Windows programs.
So, do the math. You can pay $12 for this DVD (or get it free from the developer) or you can pay $100 to $300 for Windows Vista or $129 or so for Mac OS X (although you'll have to shell out another $1,000 or so for the Apple computer to go along with the latter OS).
Intrepid Ibex January 12, 2009
J. Kereakoglow (Lowell, MA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is one of thousands of linux flavors. The difference between each is the packages (i.e. the software applications) that come preinstalled. Ubuntu is aimed toward everyday users, but can easily be made to be a developer's paradise. I recommend this over Windows as the Ubuntu community has excellent support of WiFi and graphics cards now, and because it's entirely free. If you are a small business owner, it'd be in your best interest to run linux with open source programs and save literally thousands on software licenses.
Download it free at [...] or go to [...] and download the torrent file of it.
Highly recommended.
A very capable system April 22, 2009
Alan Meyer (Randallstown, MD USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I switched to Ubuntu Linux after wrestling for months with a failing Windows installation. I was pretty sure my hardware had gone bad and loaded Linux only as a last gasp attempt to find out what was wrong. To my surprise, I never had another failure. Something had become corrupted in my Windows XP software. I might have been able to recover XP by formatting the disk and redoing Windows from scratch, but the prospect was pretty demoralizing.
Now having said that, I don't want to mislead people into thinking that Linux will run without problems. It might. It might not. How successful you are will depend to a considerable degree on the various devices you have - video card, sound card, WiFi network card, scanner, printer, etc. Many devices will work out of the box. Some will work if you go through the effort of finding and installing drivers for them. Some may even work better than with Windows. My Linux desktop and XP laptop will talk to each other fine, but my wife's Vista machine has trouble with both of the others. Mileage varies.
If you switch to Linux from Windows, be prepared to learn some new things. The OS is not harder to use. In a great many ways, it presents the very same interface as Windows. You'll see three little boxes in the upper right corner of each window that work the same as Windows. You'll be able to use Alt-Tab to switch windows. Control-C, X, and V will work the same in many applications. The mouse works the same. Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, and quite a few other applications will look and work the same as they do on Windows and, for most users, are just as good as the corresponding Microsoft software.
But you still must be prepared to learn some new things. The more you do, the more you'll find that you can do with Linux, including some nice things that aren't in Windows. If you feel awkward the first week, but are willing to learn a little, you'll be pretty comfortable by the second week and right at home after that.
As others have said, a big advantage of Linux is that it's free. This isn't just a benefit for initial cost. It also means you can upgrade your OS, your office suite, your picture viewers and editors, and most other stuff at no cost when the new versions come out.
It also means that you don't see the same quantity of nagware, crippleware, spyware, adware, spambots and viruses that you see on Windows. And if you ever run into problems, you're free to switch to a newer or a different distribution without paying anyone a fee.
I loaded Ubuntu 8.04 and was happy with it. When 8.10 came out I upgraded and was happier still. As of this writing, I'm now on 9.04 and it all keeps getting better. So far it all runs fine on my now five year old machine.
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