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A Review of Ubuntu Warty Release

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the joe-don-danny-donny-jordan dept.

JL writes "Recent news about Ubuntu had peaked my interest. Debian based, good development team, the Ubuntu philosophy and an active community. I lurked about on Freenode's #ubuntu channel and got a feel for the community. I found them to be helpful and a valuable asset to Ubuntu. I decided to give it a go on my laptop. "

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  1. Mirror and my opinion by powerline22 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mirror at http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/c8e667c8388471455 0446f30649107d6/index.html Mirrordot.

    To be honest, I know that this is a great distro, but it doesn't need that much attention on slashdot. Seems like there have been 5 reviews already. If I wanted all of that info I would go to OS News.

  2. Coralize! Coralize! Coralize! by hacker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please please please, in the future when posting articles that link to innocent users' blogs, personal sites, sites hosted on DSL connections, and so on... do not link to them directly! Use the Coral'ized link syntax as below:

    http://www.desktopos.com.nyud.net:8090/reviews.p hp?op=showcontent&id=19

    This link was purposely not left clickable, because the 'nyud.net' at the end, would cause Slashdot to add the [nyud.net] to the link text, which would stop people from clicking on it (thinking it was a pr0n site).

    Here is some more information about the Coral Distribution Network.

    Seriously, use it. It helps a LOT.

    --
    Have you Plucked the Web today?

  3. I love this. by pucko · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Debian with 6 months release cycle, can it be better?

  4. Re:Missing KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Personally I think KDE sucks. It's ugly, it's cluttered, it's convoluted, it's messy, it looks and feels like a complete hack. KDE users argue that it's more configurable. Whatever. Having 800 useless options that 95% of the population doesn't care about doesn't make it more configurable, it just makes it more of a hack. Especially when those options are strewn about randomly without any thought put into. Gnome has the right idea with this.

    Besides, if you like KDE (more power to you), there are plenty of KDE centric distros for you to choose from.

  5. but not free on Windows, etc. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    QT apps are not free to run for the majority of people (who run windows), therefore I believe in GTK for philosophical reasons.