TECH: UNBUNTU LINUX first look … … looks … … GREAT!

I downloaded the Dapper Drake (i.e., UBUNTU 606) with the help of the FREEDOWNLOADMANAGER. It was needed because just a plain old download would fail 66% into it. Don't know why? Burned a disk of the iso that didn't work. Tried again and it did. Came up a little slow. Not used to booting from a cdrom. Worked flawlessly. Detected my wireless lan. Connected to http://freetalklive.com and virgin classic rock radio. Downloaded a podcast from FTL but could figure out how to listen to it. Listened to Virgin rock while I poked at the included sip phone. I want to put it up on some of the old hardware in the garage and see how an install goes. I have a box that can be reformatted. This might be the version that pushes Microsoft out of the operating system business. Besides have you seen the rumored prices of Vista and the footprint it needs. Interesting interesting.

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