I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on Friday night. I agree, it’s bad ass. I was floored at how the UX is improved. Clicking on a video doesn’t make you jump through a bunch of apt-get hoops to get your video working. A couple yes answers and you are good. I’ll have a full review posted soon.

Thanks for stopping by my blog….

I’m with you on the doom and gloom for MS. I think they need to really look at their competitors and rethink their strategy.

Google is doing the whole web-based, Office suite. I have no doubt that Google will have an entire web-based OS before long.

Apple is winning the OS war. They also are coming out with a nice alternative to Office.

Linux is still getting better and better.

I would be selling my MS stock, if I had any.

Arrived here in relation to your ’spam’ posting on the wordpress site - I swapped to Apple OS almost two years ago - once you get over the hype - I love using my Mac and it feels much more like a community that the MS world. You might remember that MS called IBM ’suits’ well I think MS are the suits now.

There have been a couple of research reports that are spreading doom and gloom for MS - and when you look at Vista you have to give these credence.

WHY???? Uninstall Vista right now! It sucks! It’s still not as fast as XP and I swear I read that SP1 actually slowed it down. Google it, because I know I read that.

As for the problem with MySQL… I fought through that. I *might* give Vista a pass on that one. I think it’s a security thing that MySQL should have taken care of. Either way, I had the same problem. The fix is nuts! You have to download a third party utility to open up the installer and tweak some param. I was gonna blog about it, but decided to just dump Vista instead.