Why Martin is all giddy about Ubuntu (4 Viewers)
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You probably can, there must be a crack or something like that out there. I remember cracking NeroLinux (it sucks!). Anyways, I wouldn't crack it if I were you, these guys are offering good software for us and I think we should support them.
Well ya Ubuntu is Linux. As well as Fedora, Suse, Gentoo...and 100's others. They are just different flavors of Linux. Think of it as XP home and XP professional. Or the 4 (are they 4?) flavors of Vista....
As for your apps, some apps would work on Linux (Firefox, VLC Player and other stuff), while other apps would have a substitute that would replace your current one, and probably do the job better anyways
. And if both fails you could either emulate (Cedega and/or Wine) or use virtualization. Plus, you would probably find other apps that you wouldn't find on Windows, that would make your life so much easier
Well ya Ubuntu is Linux. As well as Fedora, Suse, Gentoo...and 100's others. They are just different flavors of Linux. Think of it as XP home and XP professional. Or the 4 (are they 4?) flavors of Vista....
As for your apps, some apps would work on Linux (Firefox, VLC Player and other stuff), while other apps would have a substitute that would replace your current one, and probably do the job better anyways
. And if both fails you could either emulate (Cedega and/or Wine) or use virtualization. Plus, you would probably find other apps that you wouldn't find on Windows, that would make your life so much easier
Well ya Ubuntu is Linux. As well as Fedora, Suse, Gentoo...and 100's others. They are just different flavors of Linux. Think of it as XP home and XP professional. Or the 4 (are they 4?) flavors of Vista....
As for your apps, some apps would work on Linux (Firefox, VLC Player and other stuff), while other apps would have a substitute that would replace your current one, and probably do the job better anyways. And if both fails you could either emulate (Cedega and/or Wine) or use virtualization. Plus, you would probably find other apps that you wouldn't find on Windows, that would make your life so much easier
As for your apps, some apps would work on Linux (Firefox, VLC Player and other stuff), while other apps would have a substitute that would replace your current one, and probably do the job better anyways
. And if both fails you could either emulate (Cedega and/or Wine) or use virtualization. Plus, you would probably find other apps that you wouldn't find on Windows, that would make your life so much easier
Are familiar with the concept of emulators, these programs where you can run old NES, Sega, arcades, etc games on your PC?
When you emulate, you have a program that serves as a virtual machine, this virtual machine runs something else. In Rami's example, it can run a Windows environment or a whole Windows OS installed under your Linux OS.
When you emulate, you have a program that serves as a virtual machine, this virtual machine runs something else. In Rami's example, it can run a Windows environment or a whole Windows OS installed under your Linux OS.
I'm just messing around, not taking anything away from Ubuntu, which is a solid distro and which could very easily be The One of the linux world, but the millionaire behind them surely adds something to its success. Here's what they say on Canonical's site:
130 employees working only on publicity, marketing, etc. of that specific distro, that's surely one of the reasons Ubuntu is so well known and slowly breaking the ice from the unknown waters of the linux world. Red Hat sponsors Fedora but they got their own product which takes probably 90% of their resources and Fedora gets small bits and pieces.
Me, myself had no idea what linux is untill I read an article on a Croatian portal, some time ago, which was reviewing, guess what, Ubuntu. It's not a coincedence, Ubuntu is a good distro, though I think there are better out there, but its success can't be credited just to the thousands of devs around the world but to Canonical and their marketing as well.
Then again, as they say, a good product sells itself so I may be talking shite because I've ditched Ubuntu.
130 employees working only on publicity, marketing, etc. of that specific distro, that's surely one of the reasons Ubuntu is so well known and slowly breaking the ice from the unknown waters of the linux world. Red Hat sponsors Fedora but they got their own product which takes probably 90% of their resources and Fedora gets small bits and pieces.
Me, myself had no idea what linux is untill I read an article on a Croatian portal, some time ago, which was reviewing, guess what, Ubuntu. It's not a coincedence, Ubuntu is a good distro, though I think there are better out there, but its success can't be credited just to the thousands of devs around the world but to Canonical and their marketing as well.
Then again, as they say, a good product sells itself so I may be talking shite because I've ditched Ubuntu.
TBH, if you are a gamer and can't part with your PC games, then I wouldn't suggest switching and banking on "Virtualization". Rather, I would suggest that you keep your gaming rig solely for games and all the other stuff Linux....
As for virtualization, what Jack said. Where you have a program that sits as a translation layer between the software you want to run and the "foreign" operating system that wouldn't "understand" the software without the "translator"....I don't know if this is right technically but this is how I understand it....
As for virtualization, what Jack said. Where you have a program that sits as a translation layer between the software you want to run and the "foreign" operating system that wouldn't "understand" the software without the "translator"....I don't know if this is right technically but this is how I understand it....
Then again, as they say, a good product sells itself so I may be talking shite because I've ditched Ubuntu.
.I for one am still downloading Ubuntu and testing it out and following it's news. It's more of a "peripheral" distro for me, but nonetheless interesting...
