Here’s a comparison of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS versus Microsoft Windows 7 performance when it comes to using Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors with integrated graphics. While the Sandy Bridge graphics performance was once faster when it came to OpenGL with the open-source Linux driver, that’s no longer the case.

Last week I decided to download and install the beta version of Ubuntu 12.04 on the same machine. It hiccuped a bit over the fact that there was already a valid installation, but I told it to go ahead and overwrite everything. The results were similar to installing the beta version from Microsoft with one [...]

Microsoft Windows may be the de facto standard desktop operating system in business environments, but high costs, restrictive licences and constant security issues are leading an increasing number of companies to consider open source alternatives — as Kat Orphanides explains.

Learn how to install the Linux-based OS to run alongside your preexisting Windows 7 OS; simple and safe method will allow you to install and uninstall Ubuntu in the same way you would any other Windows application.

I usually recommend against multiple-boot machines, but I can’t argue with the fact that here are situations when the idea is very useful. So this is what this article is about: making sure you need a dual-boot system, acknowledging the requirements, making backups if need be and proceed.

You will find in this article, a step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 on a computer with two hard drives. If you are looking to dual-boot both operating systems on a computer with a single hard drive, it is recommended that you read how to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu 11.04.

Today is my last day with the test machine loaded with Ubuntu 11.10 that Canonical sent me. My conclusion is: Unity is too buggy. I don’t want to do my job, 8-10 hours a day, with it. This even though I like its look and feel and there are things about Unity I will miss [...]

It finally happened. At the end of my first week of using Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, full-time, 8-10 hours a day for work, the system crashed. I fumbled a few keystrokes, hit some combination of keys and froze LibreOffice Writer.

It’s been a long time coming but today we are thrilled to tell you that the much anticipated Ubuntu One official client for Windows is now available for download.

If we run the benchmarks on the same machine under three different operating systems, we can gain an insight into how the differences between the operating systems affect how quickly you can perform intensive tasks.

Last week we delivered results looking at the power consumption of Ubuntu 11.04 versus Windows 7, which was interesting in its own right, but in this article is a brief look at where Apple’s Mac OS X operating system fits in between the power consumption of Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft Windows

The new Expert Reviews benchmarks, which can be downloaded for free, are designed to be run natively on Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 (a Linux distribution) and Mac OS X, so we decided to find out which operating system is the fastest.

Ubuntu’s new Unity interface already drew some raised eyebrows because of its looks, which are arguably similar to the Windows 7 taskbar. Now, the Ask Ubuntu site has posted a list of Unity keyboard shortcuts — and those take a cue from Windows 7 as well.

That is the purpose of this tutorial. To show how to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 where the Windows Boot Manager is responsible for dual-booting both Operating systems.

Ubuntu 10.10 is a worthwhile though not overwhelmingly impressive release; it’s worth considering as an upgrade if you are already running an earlier version of Ubuntu. It’s also certainly worth looking at if you are new to Ubuntu and are thinking about using it as your desktop operating system.

If you have moved to Ubuntu from Windows 7, you can use the wallpapers from Windows 7 in Ubuntu, if you like them.

With the arrival last month of Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition, it’s time to revisit a familiar question: which operating system is best for a netbook? Linux-based systems may seem well-suited to lightweight devices (the original Asus Eee PC ran Xandros Linux), but there are advantages to the familiar interface and applications of Windows.

With the arrival last month of Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition, it’s time to revisit a familiar question: which operating system is best for a netbook?

That is because Linux’s main appeal is to members of the ‘cloud generation’, who tend to access applications via a browser, said Paul Holt, corporate sales director at Ubuntu-backer Canonical in London on Thursday.

Despite the bombastic predictions of open-source advocates, and a short-lived spell as the default netbook operating system, Linux remains at the very margins of mainstream computing. Even among PC Pro’s technically literate readership, only 4% are running a Linux OS, according to the visitor stats for this website.

Are you just a Windows 7 user and and you need to use Ubuntu Linux programs? Well, maybe a software can help you…named VMware Player, a free software which lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines.

For this article, we’ll show you how to build a single Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X, Windows 7 (64-bit), and Ubuntu 10.04. You’ll also need a Windows 7 DVD, a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD, and a blank CD or DVD for the Ubuntu install. Soon, you’ll be able to run Apple’s [...]

There’s lots of info spread around on how to install various older versions of Ubuntu under various older versions of Virtual PC, but I didn’t find any referring to the newish Ubuntu 10.4 and VPC on Win 7.

Although it won’t help Linux run Windows-specific software applications, this easy hack produces an Ubuntu desktop that looks and feels a lot like Windows 7. It’s particularly suitable for reviving older PCs or laptops on which the main activities will be web-browsing, email, document writing, and streaming music and videos from Pandora, YouTube, and elsewhere [...]

The idea of this test, in theory, was quite difficult. In practice…quite simple. The challenge was to come up with a way to illustrate a task, side by side, to see how the two operating systems compare. The problem is – fundamentally both are so disparate. But…eventually an idea bubbled up to the top.

W7 is a similar tool that changes your Linux GUI to a more familiar Windows interface. Linux has a highly configurable GUI, but if you long for the more well-known Windows interface, this script will do a remarkably good job of making Ubuntu look like Windows 7.

Today, we are back to looking at the Linux vs. Windows performance of the Lenovo ThinkPad W510 and this time we are looking at the OpenGL gaming performance between Windows 7 Professional and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

I don’t see that IT Guy gave very good technical reasons for abandoning Windows 7. He mostly states what I consider to be perception problems — that there are daily updates (which isn’t the case), that there are massive security problems (because of the number of patches) and that Microsoft’s anti-piracy mechanisms are harassing

The following method is not about installing two dual boot systems, Ubuntu and Windows 7. Also, this tutorial is also valid for installing Ubuntu on Windows XP or Windows Vista, using VirtualBox.

Using this Lenovo ThinkPad notebook, we compared the performance of Windows 7 Professional x64 to that of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (x86_64). On the Windows side there was the NVIDIA 258.96 WHQL driver while on the Linux side the testing was done with the latest 256.35 release. The stock Ubuntu Lucid packages besides NVIDIA’s proprietary driver [...]