Harsh J

It has many cool features and oohs and aahs that you might have already heard about. This magazine of theirs might help if not.

But quite surprisingly what I found today, while playing around in Google Trends, was this:

Though I don’t know the reason for the decline in the searching for ‘linux’, Ubuntu sure is compensating for it. At that rate it’ll overtake the amount of Linux searches and who knows, maybe enter the dictionary one day like Google did. It perhaps really is Ubuntu leading the migration front ahead, way ahead, of all other distributions.

Back to Feisty, I installed it today afternoon, the new Windows / Other OS migration tool didn’t work for my existing Vista Ultimate installation but I am not to be bothered importing anything from there. Installation was as smooth as always (I’m talking Dapper and Edgy here). Took about 23 minutes and I was back on Ubuntu Linux, after a long gaming stint on Windows. Its got more GUI tools than before and this time, every GUI is the simplest it can get and can’t be anymore user-friendlier, or must I say, newbie-friendlier.

However, I got one complaint with the Live CD. I usually browse or do other things like set the Gaim IM Pidgin up for chatting while the 7-Step installation is in progress. I wish the Live CD’s installation application detect Pidgin accounts or Firefox history, etc… and transfer them to the installed Ubuntu location at the end of the installation. Though not critically helpful, it would definitely give me a smile not having to enter certain URLs or set Pidgin up again and so on… If this feature is simple enough to be implemented, why not get on with it?

Well, here’s a screenshot anyway. You won’t notice a change, since its the same pure GNOME. [ Wallpaper ]