The Ubuntu Experiment

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/7/30 Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org>:
> How much time do we have for a demo? This is more or less prioritized...
>
> - Ease of installation (we need to show "as good as, or better than
> Vista", since in most cases, PCs' come with Vista, not Ubuntu)
> - Live CD (Vista can't compete on that one)
> - Sexy GUI (compiz - again "as good as, or better than Vista")
> - Avant Windows Navigator (with bouncy icons a-la MacOS)
> - OpenOffice.org (you get it directly as part of the OS... no
> incremental purchase necessary)
> - Evolution (I hate it, but people want to see something familiar to
> Outlook / Outlook Express)
> - Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird/Lightning suite (for those who have
> already made the open source choice even on Windows)
> - Java web applications (yeah... we've got that too)
> - Flash web applications (yeah... we've got that too)
> - Skype (yeah... we've got that too)
> - Acrobat Reader (yeah... we've got that too)
> - Stellarium (cool OpenGL astronomy software)
> - GIMP / F-Prot with a digital camera (one of the things that has kept
> Windows on my home PC for a long time)
> - KDE Desktop Environment (with Ubuntu, you can actually completely
> choose your desktop environment)
> - Updates Manager (with Ubuntu, you get free updates to everything, OS,
> security, applications, without cumbersome registration)
> - If the person is a developer, show NetBeans (free, good, IDE) and GCC
>
> - AND ALL THAT FOR FREE (yes, at the end)
>
> Note that, since I work for Sun (hence the OpenOffice.org and Netbeans
> plugs) I tend to follow a similar script when demoing OpenSolaris ... :)
> (except for Avant Windows Navigator and Skype which I have not yet
> managed to get to run on OSol - KDE is in the works).
>
> Gilles (also Gilles.Gravier at Sun.com)
>


Thanks for the ideas, Gilles. I suppose that I would limit the initial
demonstration to five minutes, then an extended 15 minute demo if they
are interested, with a full hour to sit down and have at it for those
who want.

But I disagree that we should demonstrate what Ubuntu has that they
already have with Vista. That is not much reason to switch. We should
show things that Vista doesn't have. For instance, with Mojave MS
showed off the ability to easily stitch photos together in a panorama.
What can Ubuntu do that Vista (or at least XP) cannot [easily] do?


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