[ Thanks to Vaz for
this link. ]
“A few months ago, a widely used operating system
received a major upgrade — and Microsoft and Apple had nothing to
do with it. This upgrade came from the developers responsible for
one of the most popular versions of the open-source Linux operating
system Ubuntu.“Like earlier editions, Ubuntu 9.10 is free for anybody to use,
should run on even old and slow Windows-compatible desktops and
laptops and is immune to Windows viruses and malware. But 9.10 (the
numbers refer to the year and month of its release, though you’ll
also see it referred to by its cutesy development nickname of
“Karmic Koala”) also sometimes requires a little more fiddling with
the controls than you might expect or understand.“Ubuntu 9.10 comes in a standard edition that you download and
burn to a CD or DVD to install on a PC, and a “Netbook Remix” that
runs off a USB flash drive and comes with a simpler interface
tailored for smaller screens. I installed the former on three
laptops — a Dell Inspiron 1440 running Windows 7, a Dell Latitude
D420 running Win XP and an HP Pavilion dv3 with Win 7 — and put
the latter on an Acer Aspire One netbook.”This is a little old, but it’s one more example of Linux
getting more attention in the mainstream press– ed.