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Reasons to be Cheerful #3: Ubuntu

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| So yes, I am very pleased with the whole thing. Anything I still need from
| Windows I can run under Wine, and for the most part, everything I need to do
| has a perfectly good linux-based program to do it. VLC, Firefox, Thunderbird,
| Pidgin and xine get special mentions. Most of these are easily found using
| the Ubuntu Package Management system.
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http://mindrobber.blogspot.com/2008/...-3-ubuntu.html

New version of CloneZilla just released:

http://www.clonezilla.org/

Also a new version of Deli Linux:

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| DeLi Linux stands for "Desktop Light" Linux. It is a Linux Distribution for
| old computers, from 486 to Pentium III or so. It's focused on desktop usage.
| It includes email clients, graphical web browser, an office programs with
| word processor and spreadsheet, and so on. A full install, including XOrg and
| development tools, needs not more than 750 MB of harddisk space.
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http://www.delilinux.org/

Both distributions are specialised.


Related:

Linux everywhere

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| Take yesterday as a case in point. I checked the order status of my Elonex
| One, and sent an email to see if my order for the One can be upgraded to the
| One+ (bluetooth, and bigger internal memory). I then caught the train to the
| Queen Elizabeth hospital, watching the in-train tv which is powered by some
| Linux flavour (given the error message I saw a few weeks back). Visiting my
| friend Simon at the QE, he’s spotted that the tv/phone/internet screens that
| each patient has are powered by Linux. This is of course when he’s not
| tapping away on his Asus EEE, and hopefully writing the next Da Vinci Code
| (only better).
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http://andyhollyhead.wordpress.com/2...ux-everywhere/


Linux is truly everywhere

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| I spent a long time smiling about the Linux bootup screen that I had just
| seen. To begin with, it reminded me that Linux, and other open-source
| products, are now everywhere. Linux is no longer for the uber-geeks. It's not
| just for system administrators and programmers, either. Linux is now at the
| core of mainstream appliances, there even when you don't think that a
| computer or operating system might be involved.
|
| [...]
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| Finally, Moore's Law and the general trend toward cheaper and faster hardware
| means that Linux now fits into even more places than it did before. We
| normally think of Linux as an operating system for servers, or even for
| desktop computers. But we can expect Linux to be at the heart of a growing
| number of appliances, from video-on-demand devices to digital video recorders
| (e.g., TiVo), to cellphones (e.g., Android and OpenMoko). The Linux-powered
| refrigerator, with a built-in bar-code scanner that can tell you how long ago
| you bought milk, isn't far behind.
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http://ostatic.com/158401-blog/linux...uly-everywhere


10 Reasons Why I Switched To Ubuntu

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| I’ve been running Ubuntu as my sole OS on my laptop for around 8 months now.
| I’ve had dual-boots and dabbled in Linux for servers and stuff for around 10
| years or so, but this is the first time I’ve had it as the only OS on a
| system, that I use for day-to-day.
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http://www.kozaru.net/2008/05/23/10-...hed-to-ubuntu/
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