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Mad Penguin on Ubuntu 5.10 Preview

Posted by Zonk on from the frothy-birds dept.

atrebuse wrote to mention a preview of the Ubuntu 5.10 Preview release, on Mad Penguin. From the article: " Every community has its heroes. From the beginning of time, we've all needed that special something to grasp onto and worship in one way or another. The Linux community is no different. Sure, there are a handful of people known as leaders or visionaries that people look up to, but what other altars do they worship at? The Altar of the Distro. That's the one I'm referring to. According to the DistroWatch page hit ranking sidebar, Ubuntu Linux has held the title of '"most worshiped distro' for quite some time now. So why is that? Is it because Ubuntu is just that good? Is it because the Ubuntu followers are just sitting there hitting their browsers refresh button on the DistroWatch Ubuntu page? What is it about Mary? "

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  1. Good question by Hosiah · · Score: 1, Troll
    I gave in and listened to the hype, and I consider my having downloaded Ubuntu to burn it to CD and try it to be a waste of time. Ubuntu comes with just one desktop (Gnome, and I'm a Fluxbox man), 3/4 of the programs you would even expect to come with a live CD missing, takes 5 times as long as the other systems to boot (I mean I timed this. On multiple computers. With a stopwatch. Against Red Hat, Slackware, Mandriva, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Knoppix, Mepis, and MediainLinux...and MS Windows 98!!!), is the *only* Linux distro I have ever used to have crashed (from just *sitting* there!) and would not run on any of the computers in my household without extensive tweaking, even finding some machines it wouldn't run on at all.

    There is *no* reason for Ubuntu to be this popular. It's been hyped, probably by people who get paid to hype. They do make money off of their tech support, don't they?

    PS I'm COUNTING on flames, and have my filters set accordingly. This is the God's truth as I type it. Normally I'm all for an open debate on Slashdot, but this time, if your opinions differ from mine on this subject, you can basically tell it to the wall.