I upgraded my distro on my development laptop to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn from Dapper Drake last week, and it’s been fantastic - a real standby mode, much better WiFi support (even though the Broadcom card that shipped with my Dell has no linux drivers and I have to use the Windows drivers using ndiswrapper), and it seems a little snappier too. The Firefox it comes includes Flash 7, which is better than no flash, but not enough to watch videos on the New York Times - for that I need 8 or above. I followed the first installation method on this great page

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/flash

and am now up and running with Flash 9, watching video with sound.

My Creative Zen V Plus mp3 player arrives tomorrow, and I’ll report how well it works with Linux.

If you’re interested in getting away from Microsoft on your desktop or laptop, the time has come. Start with your last computer, the one that got slower and slower with each Microsoft Disservice Pack, virus and spyware. Header over to http://www.ubuntu.com/ and follow the instructions for turning that computer into something fun and useful again.

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