Now watch this video and and tell whether Windows could ever come closer to this in the next 10 years comparing the sleekness and the memory consumption. Beryl comfortably runs on 512 MB memory and a decent processor. Here is a feedback by one of the bloggers.
“I’ve got Beryl running very nicely on a P3 800 with 512MB of RAM and a GeForce 6200 card. The only thing that’s slow is resize. Everything else is pretty snappy.”
What you can order is Kubuntu/Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 which is 6 months old. My personal advise is to download the latest version Kubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 at http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php. Stable, no spyware, no viruses, runs comfortably on machines suffering from “low memory” disease.
Ubuntu has its new version released every 6 months. Next comes in April is Fiesty Fawn. You can also download an Alpha release of it.
Before switching to Kubuntu, I was using Freespire (free edition based on Linspire linux) for a few weeks. It looked a lot like Windows. (no wonder it was initially named as Lindows). I liked that inbuilt proprietory audio and video codecs and the Click-N-Run (CNR) feature of it. Just imagine an executable living inside a Linux operating system. But after switching over to Kubuntu, I never turned back. With good hardware support, lots of help from user groups, 6-month release cycle, I could never want any other thing on my system. Frankly speaking, i dont dual boot. Just Kubuntu.
Whats all this story about.
Linspire will now immediately transition to Ubuntu as the base for their Linspire and Freespire operating systems, and Ubuntu will utilize Linspire’s CNR technology for Ubuntu’s software delivery system.
You might ask. But aren’t they competitors? Of course, they are. Guess what they say about this new partnership.
“While both companies, and their respective projects, do compete at certain levels, both are interested in seeing greater desktop Linux adoption and growth. By joining forces they can work together to focus more attention on addressing common challenges Linux faces in a world dominated by Microsoft Windows”
