Most of the computer users in this world doesn’t know the existence of Linux OS s other than Windows. There is an alternate for Windows OS and that is not Apple’s Mac or any other which costs you hundreds of dollars. Linux. Ubuntu Linux is completely free and which is the wonderful alternate for Windows list of OS like XP, Vista, 7.
Ubuntu is free, open source, a greatly enhanced Debian based Linux distribution. It is available for free download.
You can switch easily to Ubuntu from your current Windows OS, which may be in your laptop or desktop. Ubuntu operates well on older hardware (expensive upgrade not required). while you don’t have to buy a separate office package for Ubuntu, because it comes with built in openoffice.org office package which also comes free of cost (you have to download the source after installing ubuntu).
Ubuntu comes with thousands of standard free application resides in its repository stops you buying 3rd party software for your needs. Almost for every need there is a software in Ubuntu repository. Even though most of them is free there is also very few software were cost some dollars, but you don’t need them unless you got compelling need to buy them.
Ubuntu also does not requires tuning, performance software, and also no need of anti-virus protection. A method of ‘swap’ memory allocation avoids loss of data at any cost and in my experience it never crashes.
Canonical releases major versions of Ubuntu every six months in April and in October of each year. Every two years, Canonical releases a Long Term Support (LTS) version. Canonical supports the LTS versions for five full years with updates, security fixes and upgrades-all free of charge.
Ubuntu has a version that’s right for all aspects of your business. There are Ubuntu versions for netbooks, desktop computers, servers and cloud computing needs. The cloud computing Ubuntu, known as Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), ties in closely with Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud platform (EC2).
Try ubuntu today. It has an option that you can try ubuntu in your windows system before installing it. Just try it, It will be hard to switch immediately from windows to ubuntu, so have a dual boot of both OS in a same computer.
Written by Sakthi Tharan (tharansakthi)
About Author: A professional blogger, writes on blogging and other various web trends and activities that relates to blogging. His articles are more strategical than being more technical.
