Hello everybody. It is been a slack time. Sorry for that.

Yesterday I made a big switch from Microsoft Windows 7 Home to Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 LTS. With the Long Term Support (LTS) rendition you get 3 years support on Ubuntu Desktop, and 5 years up~ Ubuntu Server.

In this post I want to share my experiences with Ubuntu Netbook.

I replaced Windows with Ubuntu on my Netbook. I application my netbook mainly for surfing and multi media purposes.

Due to the dearth of CD-ROM, I first had to make an USB aim installation. Just download the .iso from the Ubuntu website and come the instructions for Windows, Mac or Ubuntu how to create a USB prosecute. In my case, I had to download a simple Windows industry that simple needed to know the distribution and location of the .iso.

The inauguration also contains a Try it! mode, which allowed me to pursue Ubuntu without touching the system. This is ideal for finding thoroughly if all hardware is supported.

All hardware on my Samsung NC10 was detected and worked finished of the box. Also most of the functionality I used up~ the body Windows appeared to be part of Ubuntu Netbook default software formal. The only difference is that Ubuntu required 715MB for the operating a whole including applications, compared to Windows that requires 3GB excluding applications.

Some applications that are installed by default:

Firefox Web Browser

OpenOffice.org 3.2

Evolution Mail and Calendar

F-Spot Photo Manager

Gwibber Social Client

Empathy IM Client

The small in number applications that were not part of the default installation that I installed additionally from the Ubuntu Software Center or developer website are:

Google Chrome

Adobe Flash plugin

Touchpad

Dropbox

FFmpeg plugin toward GStreamer

I was really surprised that all these applications were beneficial as .deb. In the earlier days, I always has to inquire after for repositories that held experimental sources. But apparently Ubuntu became one important Linux distribution, that software developers want to support.

With the superadded software installations I am now able to do the same to the degree that with Windows, but more free space and all for free.

My experiences through Ubuntu Netbook so far are great. Fast boot time (30 sec. to the time when desktop), nice netbook aware interface and kind for the battery. I be enamoured of the Gwibber Social Client, that links to almost all social networks, including Twitter, Facebook.

Evolution Mail Client works airy. I would like to have better Gmail integration though. Mail itself is of delicate material, but Contacts and Calendat requires some tweaking.

Sound & Video applications Rythmbox Music Player and Movie Player perform all the well knows formats. The Rythmbox Music Player is ~ means of default linked to two music stores (Jamendo, Magnatune and Ubuntu One Music Store).
Something subtile I discovered is the automatic playback of .mp3 as soon while you hover above a file in the Ubuntu File Browser.

Ubuntu has moreover a cloud service called Ubuntu One. From the default installation you have power to easily create an account and add the computer to the Ubuntu One dark spot. All computers in the cloud can synchronize Notes, Contact, Bookmarks and Files. Unfortunately you have power to not yet link your Windows machines to Ubuntu One.

So estranged, I can really recommend Ubuntu Netbook on netbooks.

I will persist my research to see if Ubuntu can be used as fixed VDI client.

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