Best alternative for XP and VISTA -UBUNTU 8.04

Best alternative for XP and VISTA -UBUNTU 8.04 (for any help email helpmeubuntu@gmail.com)


Do you pay lot for getting XP and VISTA or you get bored using cracked XP and VISTA use UBUNTU 8.04
Some of its advantages are


VIRUS FREE

FREE CD delievered directly to home

Graphics -to the standard of VISTA

Compactable with XP and VISTA Softwares

High Security
All softwares and updates available for free

LIVE CD -test the operating system before installing

Install inside xp or vista like any other software

Visit shipit.ubuntu.com and register for free cd, the cd will be delivered to you within few weeks. You can test the operating system with Live cd without installing it. It is compactable with all XP and VISTA softwares all you need is simply install wine package.

Things to do on your new Ubuntu 8.04 :


Enabling Cool Graphics Effects


Ubuntu 8.04 offers a wide array of Visual Effect . Now depending on graphic hardware of computer one could chose from three level of Visual Effect (From System -> Preferences -> Appearance )

None : - This mode causes Ubuntu to use no visual effect

Basic : - Has only simple visual effects like shadows , fading windows-menus etc

Advanced : - Recommended for PC with descent graphic hardware , enables effects like wobbly windows, transparency , animated workspace switching etc.

Now , the biggest advantage of Compiz Fusion is even on really slow hardware one can have descent set of visual effects even on my slow laptop.


Installing Audio/Video Codecs

The first thing anyone who wants to use Ubuntu as a replacement to their windows operating system would like to do is install support for all kind of audio/video multimedia codecs . Ubuntu does not come installed with support for major audio/video formats because of licensing issue and other issues . To install support for audio/video codecs type in the following command in the terminal window : -

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly


And if you want to install mp3 support for playing mp3 files use the following command. it works well even on modest hardware .


sudo apt-get install mpg123


Installing VLC Player : -

VLC Player is another of popular video player available under Linux . VLC player is based upon free open source libraries .One Important feature of VLC Player is it's ability to play files over NetWork Protocols . VLC Player will play files that are incomplete/broken or partially downloaded , making it useful for previewing file while downloading on file-sharing networks.

To install VLC Player type the following command in the terminal window : -

sudo apt-get install vlc

After completing above step launch vlc player from (Applications -> Sound and Video -> VLC media player )



Installing wine :-

Wine helps you to install and work with all softwares that are developed for XP or VISTA.It is one of the great features of ubuntu 8.04 .All exe files can be installed inside ubuntu after installing wine.

To install wine type the following command in the terminal window : -

sudo apt-get install wine

After completing above step launch all the applications from (Applications -> wine )

For any help email helpmeubuntu@gmail.com