Apparently there is much to love with regard to the Ubuntu Server. After all, it’s not just for the desktop anymore….

I’m always trying to give Linux an honest shot at winning me over. I’m not a big fan of paying Microsoft massive amounts of money for every little thing I need. I’ve been particularly interested in Ubuntu lately, for the sole reason that it has a massive community. Each time I’ve tried it, I’ve tried the live version inside of a virtual machine, so that it’s isolated and controlled.

Now that Ubuntu has version 6.06 out, I gave it a try as usual. I was very impressed that you can power up the live CD, and then perform the install while still using the OS! Very cool. It gives me something to do during the install. The complete install took about 15 minutes, which was incredible. Once I fired it up, it was very responsive, and impressively identified all of my hardware.

By day, I’m a Microsoft .NET software engineer. By night, I’m a tinkeraholic. Ubuntu desktop is great, but it just doesn’t do what I want it to do. I just use way too many pieces of software that only run on Windows. Microsoft Money, Visual Studio, Outlook, TortoiseSVN, etc. That’s also the reason that I can’t really recommend it to anyone I know. If I ever were to install it on someone elses machine, I would inevitably get a call asking why they can’t get their Scooby Doo game to run, or they can’t get Firefox to correctly show SomeCrappySite.com…. Source: superjason.com