Nice.

A new ver­sion of my favor­ite free oper­at­ing sys­tem has just been released. Check out the new fea­tures and updates to Ubuntu here, then down­load it and break free of the Win­dows desktop, when you can (some­times you really do need Win­dows, but not for everything).

I’ve been using Ubuntu on my laptop and my home net­work server for the last three ver­sions, and it’s rock solid for my needs; file serving, print­ing, scan­ning, image maniupla­tion, net surf­ing, file man­age­ment and the stand­ard office suite.

Go on, try it. Down­load the disc (or order one to be delivered to your home free, though the free ver­sion is one step back, it is sup­por­ted for three years).

Simply boot your com­puter with the disc in the drive and exper­ince the Ubuntu good­ness. You’ll be run­ning what’s called a ‘Live Dis­tri­bu­tion’; basic­ally the oper­at­ing sys­tem runs from the CD, not touch­ing your hard drive, a per­fect way to trial the new oper­at­ing sys­tem with out risk­ing your com­puter.

A LiveDis­tro does not alter the cur­rent oper­at­ing sys­tem or files
unless the user spe­cific­ally requests it. The sys­tem returns to its
pre­vi­ous state when the LiveDis­tro is ejec­ted and the com­puter is rebooted.

Tech­nor­ati Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, Upgrade, Update,

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