bbc.co.uk — Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC Future Media and Technology has given Ubuntu a road-test on his BBC blog and provides a pretty positive review, testing a number of different use-cases of the system including wireless networks, picture editing, iPlayer, updates, webcam support and more.
Jun 20, 2008 View in Crawl 4
bigmanoncampusJun 21, 2008
"So how many of those free apps are actually quality apps??"Christ, I could legitimately ask the same of MS Office. Show me perfect software anywhere and I'll show you a real fanboy."Not many at all & you know it."No, I know the opposite is true. I would ask you to try Ubuntu's media edition for a week and then come and tell me there aren't "decent" multimedia apps for linux."Im curious, did DVDs or other common media play outta the box? No they didnt."Yes, they do."There are more digital products than iPod."Indeed, and I haven't run into many save some bleeding-edge-new-chipset PCI NIC's that don't work."And having people rely on forums for any kind of support isnt an option for many many people."Really? You sound like someone who's never used them.
magistersartJun 22, 2008
I am now surfing the net from my bro's laptop. Latest Kubuntu. WiFi works great, though I had to spend 1 minute to set it up (He usually uses wired connection at home, so he didn't bother with setting up a wifi connection for home)
magistersartJun 22, 2008
If you don't know how to do all these things, this doesn't mean that Linux is not ready for the masses.3D video acceleration - 3 commands in console.WPA - easy as breathing.Know nothing about gamepads. I have a couple of Logitech joysticks, that work fine.DVDs - holy goodness!!! I never had any problems with DVDs in Ubuntu out of the box.But you are right about things to be easier. Canonical Inc. should wright a manual for Ubuntu covering all issues of this kind, as they do require some experience to be solved.
magistersartJun 22, 2008
Did you try to find the reason? The behavior is really strange. It should work fine with your hardware.I own an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 with 3GB RAM, and I had no troubles with Linux.
bl4k3rJun 23, 2008
People don't want to research that stuff. They want it to work.
flashingcurserJun 23, 2008
Is it just me? or does requiring activex for a banking website seem like a bad idea.
angrykeyboarderJun 27, 2008
He must have a very weird bank. While mine *claims* to only work with IE,Firefox and Safari on Windows/Mac it also works perfectly with Konqueror & Epiphany in Linux (and Firefox too of course).The bank doesn;t even flinch at them.I suppsoe it's because my bank adheres to web standards, like any site should.