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OS Combat - Ubuntu Linux Versus Vista

Posted by Zonk on from the cue-the-music dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek pits Ubuntu Linux versus Windows Vista in a detailed comparison. They run down a number of points for this comparison, including installation, hardware support, software, and backup. For IW, backup was a crucial feature. As a result, the conclusion are unusual for this type of review because it straddles the fence. The verdict is: 'a tie, but only because both platforms fall short in some ways. Vista's roster of backup features aren't available in every SKU of the product; Ubuntu doesn't have anything like Vista's shadow copy system and its user-friendly backup tools are pretty rudimentary.'"

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  1. Ubuntu Diarrhea Theme by postmortem · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do ubuntu zealots use default brown 'diarrhea' theme?

    http://www.ubuntu.com/files/u3/desktop-tn.png Looks more like broken toilet than a desktop to me.

  2. Ubuntu = crash crash crash crash by crayiii · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a machine running windows (very nicely) and I get crashes in firfox, moving documents between SATA drives, using F-spot, remote sessions with NXServer, and other random times. I don't mean nice crashes either. These crashes kill responses to any input be they keyboard, mouse, video, ssh, telnet, etc. Sorry, Linux doesn't "just work"...