If you haven't downloaded and installed Ubuntu Linux 7.10, "Gusty Gibbon," you don't know what you're missing.  It's time to ditch the old Microsoft Windoze operating system of choice--or should I say of necessity--and move up to the OpenSource GNU/GPL operating system called Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Linux is based on the Debian Linux kernel and is one of the most user-friendly operating systems out there today.  Ubuntu, as well as KUbunto, and Ebuntu, were designed and distributed by a South African company known as Canonical Limited.  The current version of Ubuntu is supported for 18 months, after which time there will be a new release.

You can elect to download the Ubuntu Linux OS from http://www.ubuntu.com or you can order the LiveCD from the same website.  All you need to do is pop the LiveCD into your CD-Rom drive and give it a test drive.  You'll be able to determine, without having to install the OS, whether your hardware is supported.  Unlike the days gone by with Linux, there are Linux drivers for almost every piece of hardware imaginable from sound cards, video displays, to external USB drives, hard drives and network adapters, including wireless adapters.  All you need is 500MB of hard drive space (for the desktop version) and an 800 MHz FFB to install and use Ubuntu LInux.  The best part is you'll get hundreds of thousands of dollars of FREE software when you install and start using it.  Canonical Limited fully supports all the software that comes with the CD and that is available from the Ubuntu software repository on the W3.

Why don't you give Ubuntu Linux a try today.  You'll be able to break the bonds of Bill Gates stronghold on you because much of the software that runs in Windoze also is available in an opensource version as a Debian file, RPM, or tar file.

Give yourself a late Christmas present and move up to Ubuntu Linux 7.10, "Gusty Gibbon."  I certainly did on my personal laptop and I never regret having made the move.

--
Dan Calloway
USA
"Linux; the Operating System of the
Academic World."