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Unfortunately, attempting to provision on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install with the following additional packages: build-essentials python-software-properties build-essential libacl1-dev python-dev libldap2-dev pkg-config gdb libgnutls-dev libblkid-dev libreadline-dev libattr1-dev openssl (please note these pre-requisite are not documented in the wiki) gives the following error: "libkdc-policy.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and I cant get an answer as to where to find or build this module or find such info in a web search. All in all, it has been a very frustrating experience.

According to their bug report on it, it was fixed in a beta release recently...https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba4/+bug/887537

First impression of the error: you're missing a library file.

I did a google search, and came up with this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba4/+bug/887537

Maybe that will help?

Some ubuntu users feel that this amazon search functionality should be expanded to other applications as well. For example grep search results should include amazon search results.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1055766

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

I am pretty sure this is an intel driver problem.

>keyboard/mouse context switches are time consuming..

While that's true, it doesn't have to be a context switch if you don't want it to be.

Don't click on the Dash icon. Just hit Super.

This is basically the equivalent of Launchy, Gnome Do, and friends. I used to have those set on Super+Space.

For the times you need a hierarchical menu, install Cardapio and pin it to the launcher, as I have.

>They should offer hotkeys as well.
I think this means you're talking about Unity without having used it. There are also hotkeys for your pinned items in the launcher.

Finally, if you don't like selecting stuff with the mouse, you might like the HUD. Think of it as a command line for your GUI menus, with completion.

>keyboard/mouse context switches are time consuming..

While that's true, it doesn't have to be a context switch if you don't want it to be.

Don't click on the Dash icon. Just hit Super.

This is basically the equivalent of Launchy, Gnome Do, and friends. I used to have those set on Super+Space.

For the times you need a hierarchical menu, install Cardapio and pin it to the launcher, as I have.

>They should offer hotkeys as well.
I think this means you're talking about Unity without having used it. There are also hotkeys for your pinned items in the launcher.

Finally, if you don't like selecting stuff with the mouse, you might like the HUD. Think of it as a command line for your GUI menus, with completion.

Seriously. If you search for 'titanic' and don't type fast enough you may see adult content.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/18/ubuntu_12_10_review/

Or see the bug "No obvious way to restrict shopping suggestions from displaying adult products".

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1054282

I think the devs and the people responsible are underestimating the degree to which this is a major fuckup.

Prevention is better than cure.

And how the fuck does the act of being an iPhone do THAT?

Trusted software from a known source. Bit like a Linux distro ;)

Ubuntu makes it easy for end users to install third-party repositories called Personal Package Archives. I've been told that sufficiently large companies can run the equivalent of a PPA for iOS, but only by paying Apple a recurring fee for an enterprise developer license, and then only for access by the company's employees.

"It makes perfect sense to integrate Amazon search results in the Dash, because the Home Lens of the Dash should let you find *anything* anywhere"

Seriously? it should "let me find"? You put tons of advertises in user's computers *and* tons of user's data on Amazon servers and you didn't provide it as opt-in feature? And I can't even disable it [until a rushed update came out]?
Good job! You're alienating the most important thing you gained so far, your users. You know, not only it is important to bring Ubuntu in the mainstream: you need to be sure you don't get there alone, you know?

It seems another case of "shut up, we know better than users what users really want".
Do you?

A fix has now been released for Quantal (12.10), they are working on releasing the fix for Precise (12.04) as an update, until then there is a PPA with the fix from Timo Aaltonen at https://launchpad.net/~tjaalton/+archive/ppa until the official Precise xserver-xorg-video-intel package is updated.

In theory, amazon could gather information about every file you search, every program you launch through the lens, and such

AGAIN. From TFA:

Why are you telling Amazon what I am searching for?

We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community. And most importantly, you trust us to address it when, being human, we err.

And:

There is even a bug report, marked as confirmed, questioning this very thing.

That is marked as confirmed because it affects multiple users, and relates to a more broad list of concerns than what you infer. The way you word it points to a bug about Amazon seeing your keystrokes, while the bug report is more of a list of concerns such as opt-in vs opt-out, making the amazon lens separate from home etc.

Some people are also questioning if the home lens (the default lens to make any local search) is the right place to integrate these remote searches to third party services. In theory, amazon could gather information about every file you search, every program you launch through the lens, and such. There is even a bug report, marked as confirmed, questioning this very thing.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1054282 (NSFW links included in the bug report comments)

There is no way to block adult oriented results from coming up....
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1054282

Well, here is some other stuff i picked up:

If the issue is the blank screen being identical to what you would see if prompted to login - but w/out the login window

what worked for me was to Tick "Lock screen when screensaver is active" in screensaver preferences dialog

This host was running Ubuntu (Bug #150109), but other things to try:

Option "ForceEnablePipeA" "true" # in your xorg.conf:devices section
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Quirks#Force_Pipe_A_Quirk

try nomodeset (disable KMS) and/or vthandoff in grub

run below from a console:
compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp

use xset to control DPMS
  sleep 1; xset s activate
      Or to turn the screensaver off:
  sleep 1; xset dpms force off

In a terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal), type: gconf-editor
Navigate to apps-->gnome-power-manager-->buttons and set lid_ac and/or lid_battery to "nothing" (without the quotes)

SEE: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/416236

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze
http://linux.bigresource.com/Fedora-14-Black-screen-with-pointer-only-after-waking-2Nn2FdoSA.html

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/138256?comments=all

Hope this helps

Well, here is some other stuff i picked up:

If the issue is the blank screen being identical to what you would see if prompted to login - but w/out the login window

what worked for me was to Tick "Lock screen when screensaver is active" in screensaver preferences dialog

This host was running Ubuntu (Bug #150109), but other things to try:

Option "ForceEnablePipeA" "true" # in your xorg.conf:devices section
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Quirks#Force_Pipe_A_Quirk

try nomodeset (disable KMS) and/or vthandoff in grub

run below from a console:
compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp

use xset to control DPMS
  sleep 1; xset s activate
      Or to turn the screensaver off:
  sleep 1; xset dpms force off

In a terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal), type: gconf-editor
Navigate to apps-->gnome-power-manager-->buttons and set lid_ac and/or lid_battery to "nothing" (without the quotes)

SEE: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/416236

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze
http://linux.bigresource.com/Fedora-14-Black-screen-with-pointer-only-after-waking-2Nn2FdoSA.html

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/138256?comments=all

Hope this helps

An ever increasing number.. this bug cropped up because on a dual-boot machine sophos broke grub2 os_prober and so the machine couldn't detect windows anymore. Admittedly grub2 doesn't assistance with with being broken, but I'm sure this didn't help. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1027110

There's an issue with network lockups first reported in 2007 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/132042. People have been adding comments ever since, but it hasn't been even been assigned yet.

I have been reporting that problem for a while, but they just assume that I am an idiot who just doesn't know how to use a computer.

My fix is switching to the 3.4 kernel on the Eee PCs at work, and the Intel graphics problems go away. Needless to say, switching to a bleeding-edge kernel can break things, so be cautious.

I'd try this PPA first with a LiveCD: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

...for your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
EndSection

..but it's probably just dumb luck.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/966744/comments/258

Regarding the out-of-memory thrashing, there is an Ubuntu bug that has been open for years that very recently got an interesting response:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/159356/comments/35

The tl;dr version is "sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=100000" might fix the problem.

What the Linux guy meant is that the code doesn't come broken from the factory, and you aren't stuck with it being broken for years and years and years, and even if you can't fix it yourself, if you wanted, you could pay someone to fix it. You can't do that with windows. Oh, and what the kids from best buy do isn't fixing it. They shut parts of it off to mask the problem. It stays broken.

...as compared to Linux where basic things get fucked up during a new release cycle, get flagged as regressions, then sit on the shelf for years while people say "Can you test with the latest version?". Yeah. I'll test with the latest version right the fuck after you tell me what you've done to fix it that I need to test...

5 years of mdns issues
2 years of incompetence in design
3 years of numlock fail
1.5 years of more Unity bullshit

Don't forget things like the huge PulseAudio debacle and the changes forced down your throat like making window manager buttons more 'mac like'.

The same bullshit occurs on Linux. It's not a panacea. All that being said, it's still better than Windows--just don't use Canonical-based crap.

What the Linux guy meant is that the code doesn't come broken from the factory, and you aren't stuck with it being broken for years and years and years, and even if you can't fix it yourself, if you wanted, you could pay someone to fix it. You can't do that with windows. Oh, and what the kids from best buy do isn't fixing it. They shut parts of it off to mask the problem. It stays broken.

...as compared to Linux where basic things get fucked up during a new release cycle, get flagged as regressions, then sit on the shelf for years while people say "Can you test with the latest version?". Yeah. I'll test with the latest version right the fuck after you tell me what you've done to fix it that I need to test...

5 years of mdns issues
2 years of incompetence in design
3 years of numlock fail
1.5 years of more Unity bullshit

Don't forget things like the huge PulseAudio debacle and the changes forced down your throat like making window manager buttons more 'mac like'.

The same bullshit occurs on Linux. It's not a panacea. All that being said, it's still better than Windows--just don't use Canonical-based crap.

What the Linux guy meant is that the code doesn't come broken from the factory, and you aren't stuck with it being broken for years and years and years, and even if you can't fix it yourself, if you wanted, you could pay someone to fix it. You can't do that with windows. Oh, and what the kids from best buy do isn't fixing it. They shut parts of it off to mask the problem. It stays broken.

...as compared to Linux where basic things get fucked up during a new release cycle, get flagged as regressions, then sit on the shelf for years while people say "Can you test with the latest version?". Yeah. I'll test with the latest version right the fuck after you tell me what you've done to fix it that I need to test...

5 years of mdns issues
2 years of incompetence in design
3 years of numlock fail
1.5 years of more Unity bullshit

Don't forget things like the huge PulseAudio debacle and the changes forced down your throat like making window manager buttons more 'mac like'.

The same bullshit occurs on Linux. It's not a panacea. All that being said, it's still better than Windows--just don't use Canonical-based crap.

What the Linux guy meant is that the code doesn't come broken from the factory, and you aren't stuck with it being broken for years and years and years, and even if you can't fix it yourself, if you wanted, you could pay someone to fix it. You can't do that with windows. Oh, and what the kids from best buy do isn't fixing it. They shut parts of it off to mask the problem. It stays broken.

...as compared to Linux where basic things get fucked up during a new release cycle, get flagged as regressions, then sit on the shelf for years while people say "Can you test with the latest version?". Yeah. I'll test with the latest version right the fuck after you tell me what you've done to fix it that I need to test...

5 years of mdns issues
2 years of incompetence in design
3 years of numlock fail
1.5 years of more Unity bullshit

Don't forget things like the huge PulseAudio debacle and the changes forced down your throat like making window manager buttons more 'mac like'.

The same bullshit occurs on Linux. It's not a panacea. All that being said, it's still better than Windows--just don't use Canonical-based crap.

We're there right now. This is the time.

Let me get this right: this is the Year of the Linux Desktop? Finally, it's said for the first time, and the wait is over. Victory is assured

That's nice in theory and usually true in practice, but not universally true. While not explicitly the same issue, this bug ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/997461 ) highlights how even a large company like Google doesn't put in the effort to deal the sporatic shifts.

They thought when they had something people were happy and comfortable with that they "lacked direction" so they got together and decided on a direction. So once they got to a point where people were happy and comfortable, they somehow thought it meant it was time for change.

This hits the nail squarely on the head, and seems to me to be one of the biggest flaws of the FOSS community (and I say that as somebody with ACCEPT_LICENCES="-* @FREE" in his /etc/make.conf). Maturity is confused with stagnation, especially in user-visible applications. Look at Slackware changing its version number overnight (albeit as a joking nod to this very situation) and the laughable Firefox release schedule. People in the FOSS community are deathly afraid of being branded as "That guy who released something once, then left it for bitrot."

This also speaks to me of the danger of forming a huge team to work on a project that may not necessarily need one. From my perspective, Gnome 2 was becoming finalized. It wasn't necessarily something I would rave about to my friends, but wasn't something I would complain about (except for this four year, unfixed bug). It had reached a plateau of reliability that most software should strive for. But you can't tell the entire Gnome desktop team "Great job, now get out except for Jim and Mike, you two stay on for bugfixes." A team of such evident drive as Gnome's has to be pointed somewhere - even if going anywhere at all is the wrong decision.

I'm having trouble thinking of a proprietary piece of software I need... depends on your hobbies I suppose.

Apart from games, a lot of people need proprietary video player software to stream rented non-free films and non-free TV shows. The software is non-free due to compliance and robustness rules imposed by the movie studios. And a lot of people need proprietary tax preparation wizard software to prepare income tax returns. This software is non-free because tax software publishers treat their machine-readable interpretations of annual tax law amendments as a valuable trade secret.

Its at the point where I assume if there is no Debian package of a cool piece of software its because its not DFSG free

There is a DFSG-free (zlib license) 6502 assembly language development toolchain called ca65, but it's not in Debian (and thus not in Ubuntu) because it's bundled with a non-free C compiler called cc65. I filed a needs-packaging request for ca65 years ago.

However... there are definitely some issues that bespeak a need for more polish. E.g. this one, or this one. Hopefully a bit more focused attention will lead to quicker fixes.

However... there are definitely some issues that bespeak a need for more polish. E.g. this one, or this one. Hopefully a bit more focused attention will lead to quicker fixes.

I upgraded from 13.0.1 to 14.0.1 (automatically in Ubuntu, as it was a security update, fixing many vulnerabilities). Suddenly I couldn't use right-click or drop-down menus anywhere in the browser anymore--they vanish as soon as they appear. I downgraded to 13.0.1 and it worked fine. I upgraded again, and it was broken again. Downgraded again, worked again.

Ignored by Mozilla. No choice but to use outdated versions with critical security holes.

Firefox's decline is evident, but Chrome's extension model pales in comparison. Besides, Chrome still doesn't support bookmark tags or resuming downloads!

It's time for a new community-oriented, user-focused browser--Mozilla has gone the way of corporations. But forking Firefox is not a good option--it's an enormously complex piece of software. And another problem is that every browser is a security nightmare, and requires a team of active, skilled developers to constantly fix bugs.

We're between a rock and a hard place. Computers and software are missing their potential so badly.

Most daemons from, say, sysv, aren't really dependent on the init system. They're just programs that init happens to run when it feels like it. You can run them manually whenever. For example, if you want to run Debian Squeeze's cups, you can run "/etc/init.d/cups restart" absolutely irrelevant of what the init is.

The daemons Ubuntu uses talk to init for some reason. If init doesn't talk back, they refuse to run. See here for my specifics on it, which links to a bug report on the matter that I'm doubtful will be resolved within the foreseeable future.

if I need any little tool, I can just open up the package manager and install it assuming its there

And on Windows, I can just open up the maintainer's web site, download an EXE or MSI installer, and install it.

and so far I haven't been disappointed

I have. I saw binaries of cc65 (6502 assembler and linker) for Windows, but the package wasn't in Ubuntu universe, so I compiled it from source. True, the C compiler is non-free, but the assembler and linker are free (zlib license) and quite usable without the C compiler. So I filed a needs-packaging bug in Launchpad for the assembler and linker.

Feel free to "vote" by clicking "affects me too" on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/876675

I encourage you to have a look at the latest Unity in Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04).

They've fixed the worst problems and it actually works quite well for a developer workstation now.

-AltTab only cycles through the windows on the current virtual desktop, not all desktops.
-It's actually nice having icons in fixed locations. Good for muscle memory.
-Global menu is nice on a laptop. On a huge monitor it may not be. But you can turn it off with one of the tweak programs.
-"You have to know the name of the app" is a concern. But not most of the time.
-If you want a hierarchical menu of the installed apps, you can install Cardapio, which I did.
-Showing your most recently used files, apps, etc. is useful, because 90% of the time you're working with what you worked with yesterday.
-The multimonitor spec is pretty good

There are some annoyances with the indicators (they don't have tooltips anymore). Settings are also sort of dumbed down. But it's generally great for developers.

... because you can't do that now with a windows-based dell machine?

Well, that's what I tried to do...Ubuntu, not Debian. It didn't go so well.

My work laptop is a Latitude E6410 that came with Windows (Vista from Dell, replaced with XP by our IT department). It's their most expensive 14" Latitude, titanium shell and stuff, quite nice mechanically. It is officially certified for Ubuntu, albeit only for the 32-bit version of the OS. I got it about 1 1/2 years ago, and tried to install the then-current LTS, 10.04. It gave a blank screen on boot. Apparently there was some issue with the Intel video driver. 10.10 didn't work either, so I used the VESA driver for a while, and went through the kernel sources trying to isolate the problem, but failed (it's complicated code, and I don't know the hardware). After a couple of months, 11.04 came out, and there were some tweaks, and lo and behold, it started working. A few kernel updates later, it broke again. I'm still running 11.04 (an attempted upgrade to 11.10 hosed my system), but with an older kernel.

There were other issues: the touchpad wouldn't scroll, which turned out to be because the ALPS driver didn't recognise it. Dell eventually supplied a patch, which added a quirk to the ALPS driver to send a special byte sequence to the keypad that switches it into ImPS/2 compatibility mode. Now it does vertical scrolling, but not horizontal, and it still doesn't get recognised as a touchpad so you can't adjust the sensitivity or do any other configuration. Apparently this is considered a "fix". I've also had intermittent issues with the Broadcom wireless chip refusing to connect to anything, and I still get occasional random hangs that I've been unable to trace to anything but suspect may be wireless-related, since I get them more often in the confused spectrum at home than at work. Sometimes when I suspend the machine and then wake it up again, an additional battery is detected, which since it doesn't really exist shows up empty, causing the machine to go into an emergency shutdown. I mostly quit using suspend, but that isn't a fix either.

Now to be fair, the certification page has a disclaimer saying that it's only certified with the exact, 32-bit image that it came with if you ordered the machine with Ubuntu on it, and that it may not even boot with the normal Ubuntu that you download from the web. It also shows only one particular configuration that they're testing with, which has nVidia graphics. I'm not paying Canonical for support, so I have no right to expect anything from them. But it does read, right at the top "The Dell Latitude E6410 laptop has been awarded the status of Certified for Ubuntu". I'm not giving much weight to that statement anymore.

I switched to GNU/Linux 14 years ago mostly for practical reasons, it was more stable and more usable for me than Windows 98 was. Then I learnt about Free Software, and now I'm using it because it's Free and has a few key features that really help my productivity. But looking at my coworkers' screens, Windows has mostly caught up in terms of general quality, so that argument is gone, and it seems to me that Linux has actually got worse. Back in the late 90s when I started using it, quite a lot of hardware was not supported, but the stuff that was supported Just Worked, and the whole thing was rock solid. Now almost all hardware has some kind of support, but "supported" has grown to mean "works most of the time, any bugs may get fixed for some people in a couple of months' time if you're lucky". From a practical perspective, Ubuntu on Dell doesn't seem to be a very happy combination to me (my previous Dell, a Latitude D540, also had issues, although not as bad as the E6410). I'm planning to get a Thinkpad next time, on the theory that that seems to be what most kernel hackers are using, so that it should be well-supported (and it's good hardware). I don't think I'll be buying a Dell, not even with Ubuntu preloaded.

Ubuntu's X11 package hasn't been updated to the latest version. Before thinking about Wayland, they should at least take properly care of X11.

While the server is down you can find the downloads at Google code page and the Ubuntu PPA

Not sure if this is problem of distro or grub, but once installed then it works on /dev/mapper RAID drives just fine including failover. But I still believe the setup is so complicated that it easily result in unbootable system

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/997414

Sounds like this problem which seem like it's fixed in the latest patches that will likely get rolled into 12.10. Not sure if they'll get back-ported to 12.04:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/933289

So why have I had some many problems with Intel open source video? (i915 comes to mind https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554432 ) Why have I had some many problems with ATI video in general? Why have I had no trouble with nVidia? Being open does not make it better. Just like being closed does not make it secure.

If your using Intel as an example of problems with an Open source driver. Then I think its probably a bad one. Intel have come from behind...having perhaps the worst driver. I mean living hell on Linux, with little to no 3D support. Its open source drivers now are wonderful. I have a range of Intel hardware...and support is pretty good.

Now lets do a like for like comparison with Intels GMA 500 "Poulsbo" Chipset, and its closed source driver.

The reality is being open, ignoring the politics and focussing of the development model...works, what intel has shown is that real company support of the open model produces incredible results.

If you really saw computers as a tool then you would actually care to have assurances that they actually works and that you had a guarantee that it keeps on working in spite of any upgrade to the tool belt, without you being forced to purchase a replacement. With computers and their peripherals, you get that guarantee by having the driver' committed to the OS. If you don't then it's just a matter of time before you are given the shaft by your driver falling victim to bit rot.

So why have I had some many problems with Intel open source video? (i915 comes to mind https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554432 ) Why have I had some many problems with ATI video in general? Why have I had no trouble with nVidia? Being open does not make it better. Just like being closed does not make it secure.

Really, glitchy drivers? Way to RTFA: "On the third day of use a loud coil squeal/chirp became apparent, becoming louder when it was running on battery power. Within hours the wireless chipset failed and refused to connect, the display began glitching with horizontal lines appearing through it, and it became unresponsive. I tested it with a Windows live USB thumb drive"

Some versions of the NVidia driver used a non-standard method for dimming the display, by turning on/off the backlight rapidly. This bug even mentions audible noise: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/562005 . Booting windows from an USB drive is guaranteed to eliminate such issues though, so this bug wasn't the case in TFA.

You haven't found anything that Xubuntu can't do? How about un-mute your audio?

You see, Xubuntu (at least precise, possibly others) uses PulseAudio, but XFCE doesn't support PulseAudio for dealing with audio. The author of the offending package has basically said "Maybe one day I'll add PulseAudio support, but I'm busy". Which is fine, but it does mean that there are issues with audio. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/999026

I'm mostly happy with XFCE, though there is a bug in the mapping of some hot-keys that required me to edit config files, and create external commands for the handling of desktop switches (so I could map a key that would take me back to the previous desktop I was on, without having to remember which one it was). I also was able to work around the above bug by mapping Windows-O to something to fire off a script to re-enable the sound.

Same here, Mint + Enlightenment is a great combination.

At home, the older laptop that struggles to run Cinnamon (plain Gnome3 is not even an option) is nice and snappy with E17.

At work, it works great on dual or tripple monitors, is super fast even with a bunch of applications and VMs open, and most importantly doesn't slow me down by forcing a workflow I do not want.

I'm running the SVN-fresh version. There's a few bugs sometimes (almost always fixed the next day or so, sometimes within the hour) but by and large it's pretty stable.

https://launchpad.net/~hannes-janetzek/+archive/enlightenment-svn

Except when stuff like this comes out: http://freecode.com/articles/ubuntu-new-apt-packages-fix-security-vulnerabilities-3 [freecode.com]

Ubuntu bug: Bug reported 22nd September and closed the same day.

Microsoft bug: attacks on MD5 widely known and carried out since 2005, but Microsoft still carry on using it in Windows Update until 2012.

No one should dismiss the likelihood of rogus developers submitting changes to key components of popular distros like Ubuntu to exploit. Combined with a MITM attack, your Ubuntu system is owned. This is one reason I no longer use Ubuntu.

Do you have any evidence that this was the action of a rogue developer? By your logic, you must no longer use a computer, as the "rogue" developer issue is one that potentially affects all software.

Add these PPAs

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa

and you will get 4.9 as soon as it becomes available.

I just looked at this article as my employer uses Debian and Ubuntu heavily and I've been pushing for ZFS on our file servers. There is no mention of ZFS version, the feature set available, or even a link to the source material.

ZoL is based on ZFS version 28 from the last open Solaris release, and currently integrating Illumos as its upstream.

There isn't much mention of how to use ZFS. I happen to know most commands, but I think this article would be difficult for a beginner even though it seems to be targeted at that demographic.

It looks like the Slashdot editors are doing this blogger a favor by linking to a mostly empty article.

At a minimum, this article should link to the ZoL home page, the ZoL Launchpad page for packages, and maybe the ZFS introduction or another tutorial.