Ubuntu Server Guide

as a business consultant, web designer and photographer, my technical know-how about doing system administration on my Microsoft Desktop is limited, and sometimes I do not require a server computer my son to get it right. In the Microsoft environment, keeping up to date with regard to potential security breaches and patches was always bdijenje.Strogost keeping current with OS updates, Norton Internet Spyware and update the time. Valuable work time each week to spend and lose on this mission, the government dictates the Microsoft operating environment.

So, with the purchase of an IBM T40 (hard laptop computer), which increases system administration was not an option. That in itself is forced to seriously consider Linux as an alternative work environment. That was five years ago. Now established Linux user, I clearly confess features and advantages of Linux for the small and large businesses, especially when it comes to notebook implementations.

The Linux version is best for small businesses and mobile deployment in your company?

As the Small and Medium Business Development Manager with Sun Microsystems, exposure to Linux and the debate about sustainability is a daily event. Examining and challenging the virtues of Open Source (free) Linux in the licensed version of Linux such as Red Hat and Novell SuSE continues to this day. After years of personal use of Open Source (free) Linux, I can never go back to running Microsoft's operating environment on my laptop. And when you can get Linux versions of Quick Books, Quick Tax and Picasa (now available on Linux), there is no reason to stay in this perpetual administrative nightmare world of Microsoft.

After successfully deployed two Open Source Linux variants on my IBM T40 laptop computer for the past five years, a convincing comparison can be made between Fedora and Ubuntu. , Open Source version of Red Hat, the expertise necessary to install some Linux gurus from Belleville Ontario. It worked fine, but requires some Linux system administration ninja every 6-9 months. Management items used during these visits were to upgrade to Open Office (open source version of Star Office), Linux OS fixes and new peripheral drivers. This, again, it turned out that the drain on my meager time for a real job.

Now Linux called Ubuntu is installed on my laptop. Canonical Ubuntu is a full Open Source Linux based on Debian Linux. Ubuntu is now available on Dell systems and the federal government, adding this Linux operating environment on their list of available standard OS for all desktop and notebook computers.

the right of the door, Ubuntu is easy to install. You can even bring down a copy of the trial to experience exactly how it will behave on your laptop before you download and make the environment of Ubuntu OS on your machine. But the best part is that Ubuntu has kept on top of the OS and all related software applications. Ubuntu Update Manager, which has magically appears in the desktop toolbar. And with a simple click (and password), you keep current on the latest version of the Ubuntu patches, any Linux software applications that you installed from Canonical and Open Office updates.

to the Linux reboot the machine after the update is almost nonexistent.

Oh, how he treated with Ubuntu, Ubuntu boots the computer in less than one minute. I still go get a coffee when I boot the Microsoft Desktop gore.Dodatna favor of Ubuntu: there is no need to install ant-virus and anti-spyware software. Ubuntu itself refuses the bottle scourge on the Internet.