Ubuntu 11 out now!

[cookie2point0]

Ubuntu 11 Natty Narwhal is now out for download. I know some of you are followers and others are thinking of testing the waters (ruth ) Enjoy

Any queries post back.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download

[cookie2point0]

Meant to add if you want to run it from within windows then you can download wubi as well to help with this.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer

[Arm Gold Expert]

I'm not happy you didn't include  links on how to run it on a Mac

Saw it earlier alright it looks good. I convinced a friend to try the Netbook version on his old windows laptop over the weekend. He was very skeptical at first but he gave in and tried it. Talked to him yesterday and he loves it. Still finding his feet with it but he was asking me how to would go about partitioning the hard drive to install it permanently so he must be convinced!

[cookie2point0]

You'll be waiting for Google OS, no? Heard the rumours that it maybe subscription?

I love linux. It's just so freeing or something. All that and nothing to pay. It makes me smug when using it but unfortunately I do have to return to windows

[Arm Gold Expert]

I haven't been overly impressed with what I've seen of the Chrome OS to tell you the truth. You can't help feeling that it doesn't have the full attention of Google and it's just another experiment that they might scrap in six months. 

Had Ubuntu installed on an old laptop before and loved it but, slagging aside, since I moved to Mac's I haven't used it. That's definitely not to say I won't in the future though. I'm just happy to have one working computer that the kids haven't wrecked (whatever the OS!)

[cookie2point0]

I'll give it a try. Although I have my concerns about how much google is integrated into my life. Re the kids. Old chinese proverb say: Give a kid a computer and they'll wreck it in a day. Teach a kid to program and they'll feed you for a lifetime from the profits

[Arm Gold Expert]

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cookie2point0 wrote:
Re the kids. Old chinese proverb say: Give a kid a computer and they'll wreck it in a day. Teach a kid to program and they'll feed you for a lifetime from the profits

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I may dust off the text books on Objective C and Java so!

Yea I won't be able to resist trying it out but you are right about Google. They are just short of telling me what to have for breakfast at the moment!

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

Defo going to do it! Just need little head space and time to get it up and running. How straight forward and time consuming will it be to get set up?

[cookie2point0]

Very straight forward. But play around with a live cd/usb first to see what you think. We can guide you through it

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

Thanks cookie :-) might give it a whizz tomorro eve, if I can get the whipper snapper off to bed early!

[cookie2point0]

I find sleeping tables or a mallet work best but dont tell social services

[Arm Gold Expert]

Good stuff Ruth, bit of variety! There's a link to a step by step in original thread that we posted in before about this. Nice bit of satisfaction when you try something like this for the first time and get it up and running!

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

:-0 And to think I was going to ask you to babysit!
Hee hee

[cookie2point0]

its timmy mallets mallet if that makes a difference??

[Arm Gold Expert]

Here's the link now:

http://lifehacker.com/#!5774997/getting-started-with-linux-how-to-install-linux-on-your-computer

Best off leaving the babysitting to someone else and let cookie baby-sit the installation instead!

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

Quite looking forward to trying it now :-)

[Arm Gold Expert]

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/39796/ubuntu-11-04-unity-linux

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

Help!

[cookie2point0]

go

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

downloaded ubuntu and went to write it to disk... got distracted for min! came back and there was some error message...(it didn't make any sense) but nonetheless it seemed to be installed on cd, but it won't start on restart, option to -help me boot from cd gets blocked halfway through.....

[cookie2point0]

Well maybe the download didnt fully complete? or the cd wasn't created properly. Can you reburn it?

[cookie2point0]

I use imgburn to burn cd/dvd's
http://www.imgburn.com/

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

yep guess so!

[RainbowRuth Gold Expert]

was using nti cd and dvd maker