{"id":11430,"date":"2010-02-27T21:47:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11430"},"modified":"2010-02-27T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T05:08:16","slug":"ubuntu-is-ready-for-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11430\/ubuntu-is-ready-for-prime-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu is Ready for Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been missing my Bloodhounds! \u00a0I reminded myself that arguing about politics<\/a> is like arguing about religion<\/a>, so logged in to push up a new post.<\/p>\n

About a year ago, I posted that the Android OS was going to free me from Windows (and Office.) \u00a0Unfortunately, the g1 was a gigantic POS, so that didn’t happen. \u00a0However, in the meantime something fortunate did happen:<\/p>\n

I dumped a giant glass of iced tea on my laptop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the two weeks of my PC repair, I was forced to move off Outlook and start using the powerful tools that Google provides (free) in their apps products<\/a>. \u00a0End of two weeks, and I was off Outlook entirely.<\/p>\n

Zoom forward a few months from that point and I’m bored out of my mind (funny how that happens in a real estate broker’s life during the Nov-Dec months.) \u00a0Out of this sheer boredom, I decided to install Ubuntu (linux) on an old PC laptop we had sitting around.<\/p>\n

I’m writing this blog post on that machine. \u00a0Ubuntu is incredible. \u00a0This 5 year old laptop with 512kb of RAM runs faster than my 1.5 year old PC w\/ 3gb of RAM and lightning fast processor. \u00a0I can’t wait to replace buggy Vista with Ubuntu on my fast machine!<\/p>\n

So…I put it to you: \u00a0Find an old laptop in your house, download Ubuntu<\/a>, install it, and give it 2 weeks. \u00a0Ubuntu is ready for prime time. \u00a0You belong in the cloud, and there’s no reason to be bound to an OS.<\/p>\n

I’d love to hear feedback from anyone\/everyone willing to give Ubuntu two weeks1!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been missing my Bloodhounds! \u00a0I reminded myself that arguing about politics is like arguing about religion, so logged in to push up a new post. About a year ago, I posted that the Android OS was going to free me from Windows (and Office.) \u00a0Unfortunately, the g1 was a gigantic POS, so that didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11481,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11481\/traveling-without-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":11430,"position":0},"title":"Traveling Without Windows","author":"Eric Bramlett","date":"March 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I attended Homegain Nation early this week. \u00a0It was a fantastic time, giving me the opportunity to meet many great people I've known online for years. \u00a0I decided to run a little experiment and bring my Ubuntu laptop, while leaving my windoze machine at home. \u00a0So...Ubuntu performed extremely well, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4834,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4834\/my-gphone-will-be-delivered-on-1022\/","url_meta":{"origin":11430,"position":1},"title":"My GPhone Will Be Delivered on 10\/22","author":"Eric Bramlett","date":"October 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Microsoft Office will be uninstalled on my PC on 10\/23. 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