Is Linux Ready? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So stop asking. Linux IS ready. Repeat after me: Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready. Linux IS ready.

to Fred920: At least 256 MB of RAM is required to run the desktop install CD. Install requires at least 4 GB of disk space.If you have less than 256 MB of RAM you can try the alternate install CD. Here you can find more info: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements (it's for 7.04 but I think that the new version don't need more resources)

Okay, so why does the title of this article have practily nothing to do with the article itself? The whole article is about the new features in Ubuntu 7.10, not about Linux being "ready" for Ubuntu v7.10. Of course it's ready!! How could Linux possibly not be "ready" for a new version of Ubuntu? I doubt that that's even possible in the first place LOL! Frankly, Ubuntu v7.10 gives just another reason to switch from Micro$oft or Mac O$ to Linux/Ubuntu. (I don't deny that I do use a Micro$oft OS(Windows XP), but that is just to run some Micro$oft only apps. and games. And I only use Micro$oft OSs in dual-boot w/Ubuntu/Linux, so who cares)

For anyone out there who uses exclusively Micro$oft OSs, you are being ripped off, Linux software and apps. are 100% free, versus Micro$oft software being expen$ive and restricted from editation(editing?), unlike Ubuntu/Linux, where practicaly all of the (FREE)software can be edited! Not to mention that Ubuntu/Linux is far more secure than Micro$oft OS or Mac O$, and most glitches and bugs are fixed faster than Micro$oft OS. Along w/new features every six months when U=a new Ubuntu version is released, versus Micro$oft and Aplle releasing new OSs, what, every 2-5 years or so?

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Linux is ready because you don't have to pay to get upgrades, just like Vista is as ready as it can ever be because it is getting updates, either your gonna chose it (any operating system, not just Windows or Linux, and yes, I mean BSD!) or your gonna chose not to get a diffrent operating system.

Personally, I suggest not going for Linux, as FreeBSD (OpenBSD doesn't have the full compatability layer) is more secure (if your paranoid, because seriously, sit behind a NAT, put up a firewall, and be smart, and even Windows is secure enough for most anything), and can run 99% of Linux programs, without the retarded GPL...

what do you mean "with out the retarded GPL"

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Stick to games Microsoft! Leave the big stuff to the real programmers. Support Linux, Mozilla, and Open Office.org in the Open Source Revolution!!!

I really like Linux and UBUNTU. Already upgraded to 7.10. Had video card issues, but got by them. Thanks Envy.

If you don't play PC games, and/or you are a commercial PC user (ie at work) then UBUNTU and probably several other linux dists are what you shouyld be using. No excuses now.

I decided to try Gutsy on my system, some of it I liked but serious problems. The linux community has to do some serious work on drivers. I have a very capable video card capable of displaying all of Vista's visual tricks, but being a newer video card the linux drivers won't allow the new interface to operate. It can't even utilizte my wide LCD monitor. There are drivers on ATI-AMD site but those drivers are made for commercial linus (ie. Redhat and Suse), finding instructions for Ubuntu is difficult at best. Secondly in Vista this machine has multimedia properties such as a TV card, but in Ubuntu I don't evem see my Hauppage card installed and from articles in various mags, the software available is nothing to write home about. I do like the fact that Ubuntu can read and write to NTFS partitions, and unlike the author I found no slowdown in time to access the files.

Is Gutsy a good upgrade, yes in that it has a fairly attractive interface, its not Windows or OS X but it is slowly evolving. Is it ready for home desktops, no, graphics support is iffy and it doesn't recognize the fact that most home machines are now media centres with HD monitors and sometimes act as second or third TVs in the home.