TooMuchGreen

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 BETA2 was released yesterday, increasingly resplendent in it’s sharp and stylish new branding with the installation procedure now receiving the “Light” treatment.

Not only is the fresh artwork fluid and attractive but content focus & flow is intelligently pitched to promote both new and existing features. We’re presented with an easy presentation covering all bases across business, media, social & cloud with a reassuring “support” slide to finish.

The best looking and most coherent Linux distro yet? Check out the screen-grabs -

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Although already a superb and proven operating system, Ubuntu hasn’t really pulled in the “visually slick” vote when compared to competitors such as Mac OSX, although until Windows 7 neither did anything Microsoft turned out, however with the release of version 10.04 they’ve applied stylish intelligence into developing the brand with a fresh look and feel they call “Light“.

Eye candy server side isn’t an issue of course, as proven by the Internets base infrastructure administered predominantly from the command line. At the back end of the WWW stability and scalability is king and Linux server is without a doubt the best tool for the job. In house enterprise management is obviously a different animal and for MS Active Directory & Exchange admin a functional GUI is necessary.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:29 mins)

One of the easiest and most popular cost saving routes into Open Source is a simple “Open Office >  MS Office” replacement. Open Office is a free and completely compatible alternative which even across a relatively small enterprise network can contribute substantially to major reductions in T.C.O through negating one area of software licensing expenditure. Compatible as it is, though, reluctancy for change at operational level is a big one, even more so at the user end as they’re the ones who like (?) to complain about the minutiae (of document formatting?).  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:55 mins)