Re: Ubuntu take-up in Australia

2015-03-23 Thread Robert Parker
Rhys, If the worst comes to the worst you could install your Ubuntu is a Virtual Box running under Windows. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html I went in the opposite direction, running WinXP in a VB under Linux for the one Windows program that I once

Ubuntu take-up in Australia

2015-03-23 Thread Geoffrey Combes
I began using Ubuntu in 2009 after using MS for Windows over 15 years. I found it to be excellent and it has got better since. It provides all the applications that I need with a few exceptions, most of those being related to science and amateur radio (I am an engineer and a radio amateur).

Re: Ubuntu take-up in Australia

2015-03-23 Thread Ian Mann
I only started using Ubuntu at 13.10 version, my repairman in Goulburn NSW put me onto it. I use 14.04 now, and might upgrade when 16.04 comes out next year. I am very happy with it. Ian On 23/03/15 20:16, Geoffrey Combes wrote: I began using Ubuntu in 2009 after using MS for Windows over 15

Re: Ubuntu take-up in Australia

2015-03-23 Thread Rhys
(Ian, I'm in Goulburn too, so let's get together for a chat/drink sometime.) I've been using Ubuntu for many years, and as my only desktop system for the last two years. I'd dearly love to get my ASUS laptop onto Ubuntu too, instead of (shudder) Windows8, but the lockdown has defeated my