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New Enterprise-Level Ubuntu Due This Week
daria42 writes "According to Ubuntu's official release schedule, the next version of its Linux distribution, code-named "Dapper Drake" is due to be released this week, June 1 to be precise. This landmark release will be supported for 5 years (previous versions were only supported for 18 months) and is being touted as ready for enterprise use." From the article: "Dapper Drake will be supported for three years for the desktop version and five years for servers, compared to 18 months for the current 5.10 'Breezy Badger' version. The code release will come after the development process was extended by six weeks in order to improve the reliability of the software."
This product will never be accepted with a name like Ubuntu, this is why nerds will always lose to suits, marketing research. Corporate types spend money trying to figure out what the average joe actually wants and is willing to accept, and name their products well, a name like Ubuntu will never catch on, they might as well have named it festering bed sore linux.
Windows, its simple, it works, it implies it ha. OSx, its implies your programs are in some sort of windows. OSx, again simple, implies its an operating system. Ubuntu, is this an african rice dish? The end boss from Final fantasy V? I have no idea what it is, or even how to spell it to look it up on google, in fact I had to check my spelling from the orignal post to make sure I didnt misspell it.
In other news, most GNOME users will tell you that GNOME developers put more work into making GNOME more polished and usable than KDE.
And after using GNOME for 4 years, trying to spend a week configuring KDE to function in a sane manner is really not worth the effort.
Or, maybe it's just that the desktops are different and if you really like one you are most likely not going to enjoy using the other for a short period of time?
No no! Seriously, this IS the year of linux / OSS faggots on the desktop. They'll post this same story about 50 times, and all the geeks will beat off as hard as they can thinking about their 'revolution' that is ticking on 15 years.
Slashdot sucks
Yes... You'll have to install an other box with Ubuntu besides your current FC2, install all the required apps (web servers, sql, whatever), migrate the data for each app, test a bunch, shutdown the old server and keep it around for like 2 weeks... and then kill it.