{"id":440,"date":"2009-02-22T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T09:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2009-02-22T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T10:00:02","slug":"from-2-windows-xp-machines-to-3-ubuntu-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/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. Oh and some people <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/from-2-windows-xp-machines-to-3-ubuntu-machines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  From 2 Windows XP machines to 3 Ubuntu machines<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,7,8],"tags":[311,554,310,307,309,308,550],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","category-technical","category-ubuntu","category-work","tag-dropbox","tag-ibm","tag-kubuntu","tag-lenovo","tag-linux","tag-t60","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}