Ubuntu conversion

With one deep breath I installed 9.10 Ubuntu on my IBM ThinkPad Laptop.

This was something I wanted to do for quite a while and I just didn't because I thought I would miss some yet-undiscovered application... So far, I have to say, I am blown away!

This is how computing should be... Need something, run the Ubuntu Software Center and there you are, lots of apps for practically anything.

I even set-up the Xming application and now I have a true multi-user, multi-tasking system running on hardware that I thought would stay with XP forever.

Nice.

I am writing this on this old underpowered system, using the Xming application from my work T61 Lenovo ThinkPad which came with the Vista hog OS... But I am using its 1680x1050 pixel screen and keyboard with Xming and actually running on the old X60!

It's just great!

So far, everything I did with the Windows systems, I can do with this one, and get this: system monitor says I am using 610MB of its puny little 1GB of RAM, my swap is 255MB and my CPUs are @ about 12-25% utilisation. Besides this blog-writing session via Xming, I have another user logged on with audio running, Firefox, system monitor, a terminal, a couple of file manager windows open and a directory compare utility running.

Before I decided to publish my experience, I did a sort of real test on the system; I wrote a business plan which consisted of a document and an accompanying spreadsheet. I worked on it for about 8 days, using only Open Office. No problem!

I exported the open doc file to a pfd and off it went...

I repeat: I am impressed.