Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 25
 Great OS July 30, 2008
Mary E. OConnor (Cupertino, CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have an older laptop and decided to see what a Unix based OS would do on it. Ubuntu is great! Easy to install, it went to the web and updated itself, allowed to to download a lot if excellent free software including a full featured Office suite which reads MS Office files (called Open Office) and more clipart than I imagined to be out there. I find easy to follow instructions on the Web. Am very impressed with it. I am not a guru, am actually a senior citizen on a restricted budget so not having to buy a new computer is a boon. Ubuntu works very much the way Windows does so I just mouse around and find things.
Terrific Ubuntu! June 5, 2008
Alex Vox (Winnetka, IL)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
t is great set of ubuntu and kubuntu and the library is top notch. I first installed ubuntu, then decided to try kubuntu and came across this set Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Linux Training Library 2DVDs+CD I use ubuntu for second year and it is by far my most loved Linux distro. Now I try out kubuntu that also great but different. This particular one comes with complete training library for all levels of users! Here's smooth installation and hour of fun! Awesome!
Excellent OS! July 23, 2008
Mohan Ram (Southern California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been using Ubuntu for 4 years now, and 8.04 is by the best OS I have used. Everything just works, has all the 'eye candy' I need and it very good solid secure OS. I highly recommend it.
Next big thing July 28, 2008
Shannyn (MA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ubuntu is going to out shine Apple in a few years and then Microsoft... I think the young kids should learn Ubuntu now... You are your own administrator.. How cool is that...
Rate the product not Amazon October 25, 2008
T. Gabriel (Raleigh, NC USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have read several "reviews" here and find one at least to be simply silly. Note to complainers about the charge here for Ubuntu: If you don't want to support the folks who actually go to the trouble of making a professionally produced installable DVD, take your $13 elsewhere. You are only making yourself look stupid - like you need this review to do that.
There are myriad people who do not want to be bothered with downloading a huge file and then figuring out how to make an installable CD or DVD who want to get an alternative to M$ who also trust Amazon. This is only one of several options available.
Personally, I downloaded it and burned 30 DVDs for people who were somewhat timid but who now are very satisfied getting away from Vista to an O/S that actually works and gives them Open Office and GIMP.
The implied suggestion here is to go elsewhere but don't downgrade a great, entry level piece of software because you don't want to pay a lousy $13.
As for this distro, well done, easy to install, I put it on a couple of homebuilts, an HP desktop, an Acer desktop, and a Lenovo Thinkpad. All went flawlessly - no driver issues at all. Plain and simple, Ubuntu is a class act making the open source world available for everyone, not just those with enough smack to "buy" XP or Vista. The only better alternative is Leopard but the outlay for the machine stands in many people's way. This O/S can go on any machine out there, legacy to SOTA.
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