Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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Submitted by Jasen on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 19:22
Over the last few years I have been blown away by Ubuntu and it's progression, I am happy to say I have not booted into my windows os's in over 2 years, but I get plenty of practice fixing Windows for clients.

Ubutuntu 10.04 has some real ground breaking features this go around, with new out-of-box support for most wireless cards, Nvidia graphics cards, and all the mobile broadband cards I could throw at it, including sprint, cricket, also my palm-pre as a usb network device. but one of the best features is under 10 second boot time (for moderately new pc). plus out-of-box support for ipod iphone ipad. Plus loads of eye candy, with newly bundled compiz.

If you have ever been interested in what open source is about, and have tried Linux or Ubuntu in the past, but were not ready to commit, now is the time. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is rock solid even in the beta2 stage.

here is a video of Ubuntu 10.04 beta2 booting in about 20 seconds

Open Source is not just a software methodology to me, I believe that open source and community developed software will make the world a better place. By taking the price tag off information & knowledge, we can truly move forward.

It is like this, major car manufacturers bought the patten on hydrogen powered cars 20 years ago, and we are still using gas. If these super corporations didn't dominate the industry, we could truly move forward. The same goes with Microsoft, while Mac has a different approach they use 90% open source for there operating system, then add 10% proprietary, then charge an arm and a leg for what the Open Source Community mostly created.

Use Open Source and the planet will be a better place, share knowledge and we can all grow
please feel free to give feedback
Jasen

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