Recently, I was watching a noontime show; when the TV host asked a trivia question to his studio contestants. The question was “In which of the following directions did our famous Rizal Monument at the Luneta Park is facing at?” Therefore, he gave three possible answers to his question. The first one was something like “East-West,” “North- East,” and “South-East.”
I have upgraded my XP Home with Service Pack 3 (SP3) and spent around 40 minutes with installation process using an Athlon XP1700 processor with 512mb system memory and a 20Gb Seagate HDD @ 5200 rpm. After the installation, my disk space went down by 300mb of disk space from 1.8 GB down to 1.5 GB. There are no significant changes about the speed and visual looks of XP.
The Ubuntu Linux is a free operating system that has been developed and deployed to the public. Today, Ubuntu is gradually winning its popularity amongst computer enthusiasts around the world and been accepted by novice and professional users. Without any further introduction, Ubuntu has taken its virtue to compete with major operating systems in the market like Windows and the Mac OS.
In fact, Dell Computers–one of the leading computer manufacturers in the world, adopted the Ubuntu operating system and the said company had realized that Ubuntu Linux has the great potential to succeed and steadily provides cost effective and alternative operating system for the new generations of computer users.
Taking glimpse with Ubuntu is as easy as download or request the latest copy of your very own installer at Ubuntu Requesting CD site. In my case, it took only 3 weeks for receiving the package from Canonical. The package contains two separate version of Ubuntu 7.10 (x86 and 64bit) platform.It is worth my time waiting for this package and to my surprise they even included an Ubuntu sticker. The installer has a live session function that runs to your pc without installing in your hard drive. Just pop in your Ubuntu CD and boot to your CDROM drive for previewing what Ubuntu Linux has to offer.
