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Cloud Computing lets users access their information on any internet connected computer and eliminates the need to install software or transport your data. This also lets you use any interent-enabled computer no matter operating system and no matter how much power  your machine has. You can realize you don’t need Windows or Mac OS if you just use cloud services and a free and open source operating system called Linux is all you need! Many people say Linux is not as powerful as MacOS and Windows while others say quite the contrary. Either way if all you need to do is run a browser to access cloud computing services, then Linux is all you need because it is lightweight and stable.

This has also lead to netbooks which are mini laptops with law sytem specs that are built to access Cloud computing services and many run Linux operating systems. Really, netbooks only need to have basic functions and why run a large operating system that requires a lot of power if you need low system specs.  Even on regular computers, many people may realize they don’t need Windows and Linux will do everything they need. As more people adopt Cloud computing and use becomes more of a standard practice, more people will realize that they don’t need Windows and Linux is not only for computer geniuses but, for regular people as well!

I have had an on and off experience with Ubuntu and for most of my usage have been very dissappointed in what many people considered to be the best linux distribution and has failed in many aspects. However, when I installed the newest version of Ubuntu on my old Dell Inspiron 6000 I was happily surprised in how much better this version is! First I would like to make a shout-out to Wubi, Ubuntu Installer for Linux,which is probably the best way to install Ubuntu if you are unsure if you want to make it your primary operating system, because all you have to do is download and run a .exe file and install it like a regular Windows program, but then when you reboot, you get a prompt to boot into either Ubuntu or Windows so, it is just like duel-booting without the work of partitioning Ubuntu is a great Linux distro and is definitly worth trying via Wubi because it is no risk!

The first part I was extremely impressed with is the sleek new user-interface, because with older versions of Ubuntu look bad and not nearly as leek as I would have liked. Now, with this new user-interface, Ubuntu rivals Windows 7 and Mac OSX in design. Ubuntu 9.04, also fixed one of the biggest problems that I had which was hardware support, while in prior versons I had problems with sound and wireless, in this version, I did not have to do anything to make my hardware work, everything worked out of the box! I am very impressed by that and I think that will truley help more people try it out if they don’t need to install any extra drivers and hopefully letting Ubuntu work immedietly on installation! Jaunty Jackalope also has a lot of other built-in features that used to need to be done with hacks and complicated processes! This new features are things such as: dual monitor support, built-in disk burning, and many other much need functions.

Now that Ubuntu is so much improved and there are so many great applications for it I think that their installation-base will become much larger and more people will become more aware of Ubuntu. Another contributor to the growth of Ubuntu, I think will be the growth of Netbooks and cloud computing because with netbooks you do not need to have the most elaborate operating system because you are just using an office suite, checking email and surfing the web. I suggest that everyone gives the  new Ubuntu a try and I am planning on trying to cover more linux and Ubuntu on my blog and videos in the near feature.