[Wftl-lug] Ubie Newbie

[Alex Alonso]

Hello Don,

"Ubie" is pretty nice, isn't it?. Go ahead and
install it (if there are no hardware conflicts,
of course) and after that try Add/Remove, 'cause
there are probably some programs you can use in
your studies, if not, maybe CrossOver/Wine will
do the trick.

Take care,

Alex


--- Don Douglass <dbdouglass at comcast.net> wrote:

> Just a note from my BIY AMD computer with
> Ubuntu 6.10 installed.  I have
> been off and on trying to get away from Windows
> since 1999.  What has
> stopped me are an admittedly dwindling list of
> frustrations with Linux.
> Lately, I have found that Ubuntu may have the
> strategy to finally put me
> "over the top" in my effort to kick the Windows
> habit.  Don't get me
> wrong, I am by no means a Windows advocate, I
> am a graduate student in
> Earth Science and I have to be conversant in a
> number of OS flavors
> found at school, work, and at home.  I "grew
> up" on DOS and in Windows.
> MS Office I use everyday especially Excel. 
> Most all of our assignments
> in Hydrogeology are done in either Excel to
> work up problems in
> hydraulic head/permeameter or Windows-based
> modeling tools in
> groundwater flow simulation.
> 
> However, I think I found in Ubuntu 6.10 which I
> have been trying this
> week of Spring Break a solution (an inside
> Hydrogeology joke;); If the
> Ubuntu install finds an existing Windows
> partition and sufficient space
> for its install, it by default re-sizes the
> Windows NTFS partition and
> installs Ubie (as I affectionately call it) and
> then sets up Grub to
> dual boot either Ubuntu or Windows.  That is
> ELEGANT, POLITE, and just
> PLAIN SENSIBLE.  
> 
> I had tried Ubuntu Live CD feature before and
> even been an advocate for
> others to try it out, but had not installed it
> on the hard drive until
> now.  SO the dual boot feature just blew me
> away!  I now can have all my
> tools on one machine and switch between them as
> needed.  
> 
> I have tried Kubuntu in the live cd also and
> liked it, but I find the
> Gnome desktop much more to me liking and work
> patterns than the KDE
> product.  The Evolution PIM is so Outlook-like
> that I forget I am
> working within Linux when I do my "thing" with
> email, contacts,
> calendars, etc. 
> 
> I hate to admit this, but I was planning on
> buying Vista, but "Ubie"
> stopped me dead in my tracks.  The "price" of
> Windows has really gotten
> to be too much to bear and not only the
> monetary part. Other burdens
> such as multiplying malware and costs to fight
> it, Media Player and its
> DRM moralizing (I don't need MS pecking away at
> me to do the right
> thing!) and MSN Messenger and its pop-up ads
> and nerve-frazzling
> "ding-dongs" intruding.  It is nice to work in
> my quiet Gnome desktop
> with its configurable multiple workspaces and
> only tread into MS-land to
> do  the things I HAVE TO DO.
> 
> 
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