{"id":28,"date":"2009-02-22T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/from-2-windows-xp-machines-to-3-ubuntu-machines\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T09:57:48","slug":"from-2-windows-xp-machines-to-3-ubuntu-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/from-2-windows-xp-machines-to-3-ubuntu-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"From 2 Windows XP machines to 3 Ubuntu machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around September last year I got a new work laptop &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.lenovo.com\/us\/notebooks\/thinkpad\/t-series\">Lenovo T60<\/a>.&nbsp; IBM, for whom I work, gives one the choice of what OS to run on the desktop ie Windows or some Linux flavor. Oh and some people actually do run Macs also.&nbsp; The Linux is either Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSuse or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a>.&nbsp; My choice was Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>Getting Ubuntu installed and running with all I need to get my job done within IBM took about 40 minutes.&nbsp; Inside IBM we have our own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_Packaging_Tool\">APT repositories<\/a> with various layer packages that install the appropriate packages and applications to get everything up and going. <\/p>\n<p>Now about 5 months later I have no regrets.&nbsp; Having a working machine in about 30 seconds after boot is just great.&nbsp; No more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Screen_of_Death\">BSOD&#8217;s<\/a>, viruses and\/or trojans to really worry about and just a more stable and productive envirionment.<\/p>\n<p>At home I also had Windows XP on some very old hardware that ran very slow.&nbsp; Since my laptop experience was so good, I decided, what the hell, lets totally get rid of Windows.&nbsp; Now my machine at home is also running Ubuntu and it is doing it so much faster than before.&nbsp; In the mean time I got another desktop and this is runing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubuntu.org\/\">Kubuntu<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I have not gotten used to Kubuntu so I do not know how long my second machine is going to run Kubuntu.&nbsp; I just prefer Ubuntu and finding my way around it, is just so much easier.&nbsp; And the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdropbox.com\/\">Dropbox<\/a> does not work on Kubuntu is a real pain.&nbsp; Oh and not being able to share my floders on Kubuntu with my Ubuntu machine is not great either.&nbsp; To be honest I did not really try to find a solution for this yet so it is probaly only something stupid I did or did not do.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/lenovo\" rel=\"tag\">lenovo<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/t60\" rel=\"tag\">t60<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/kubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">kubuntu<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dropbox\" rel=\"tag\">dropbox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around September last year I got a new work laptop &#8211; Lenovo T60.&nbsp; IBM, for whom I work, gives one the choice of what OS to run on the desktop ie Windows or some Linux flavor. 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