Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Reviews

Ubuntu (pronounced oo-boon-too) Linux is a free, open-source alternative operating system (OS) to Microsoft Windows. Free means free as in "free beer" (no cost) and "free speech" (can be modified by anyone who can program). The software can be downloaded from the Ubuntu website free of charge or ordered from them ...  Read the complete review

Introduction I would like to give a brief introduction of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a African word meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu is a free operating system which comes for laptops,desktops and servers. Well to all who are using Windows , i would like to make a small comparison between Windows and Linux(Ubuntu) so please ...  Read the complete review

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution like Debian, Knoppix, SuSe or Red Hat. Ubuntu is an operating system like windows or MacOS and on top of that it is free! That's because the Ubuntu community is based on the ideas of the Ubuntu manifesto: Software must be free, in the own local language. Ubuntu can be installed with a huge range of languages: from ...  Read the complete review

I have recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my old laptop, which only has 128mb. Installing was extremely easy and took around 50 minutes. It also operates approx. 3 times faster than Windows. It recognised all my hardware and installed the drivers without any problem, even my wireless network card. The main display ...  Read the complete review

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS(Long Term Support) is a Great Open-Source Operating System which has been nowadays a rival of the most loved Windows. This release of Linux has got all it takes to stand in competition with Windows. It is provided free-of-charge to the users for their different and even commercial uses. Ubuntu starts faster than Windows, is very ...  Read the complete review

I'm a IT Server engineer and work generally with windows based pc's and servers. As such contact with the other side had been limited to a few brief installs in virtual machines. Lately however I have had to learn some Linux skills as we've rolled out VMware ESX server (based on debian OS) as well as rolling out Nagios which is a linux application ...  Read the complete review

When I used Microsoft Vista, I was highly disappointed by the trend of MS towards removing flexibility and fun from the Operating system in favour of flashy look and feel. It was too heavy and even with 1 GB RAM, I was struggling to run a single program. So I decided to move away from Microsoft and installed Ubuntu on my laptop to ...  Read the complete review