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Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Released
BBSeXoDuS writes "Ubuntu Dapper Drake has been finally been released. Run on over to the download site while it's still hot. From the announcement: 'Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.' "
This is the beginning of the end for Fedora. Red Hat really shot itself in the foot with the dividing of its distro. It projected an image that Red Hat wasn't really willing to eat its own dog food. Canonical has one distro and one distro that it "stands" by for production use. A former Red Hat user.
Last time I tried that, every CD they sent me was corrupt. The install disks wouldn't install at all, and the LiveCDs crashed at random intervals. I was absolutely not impressed. I've tried to get Ubuntu working, but if they can't even press their CDs correctly, how do they expect anyone to actually bood the damn thing?
"It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." -Peak Performance
Vibrant but still equally unpleasant, do you know if the screenshots on http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop are of the finished article or various pre-release stages?
Do we now treat ubuntu as a single user OS and assume everyone will be switching off rather than logging out, or is that not the message the sodding great power button and a 'Quit' caption gives? Are the icons all peculiarly mangled just for fun, i see a certain amount of Tango, some throwbacks to GNOME default and some pretty horrible ubuntu specific ones. OO.o still seems to have its set of GNOME style icons, does it make sense to change most of the system and leave the icons in one of its most important components? Oh, and what's the power button in the top-right corner for, is it a quick 'Quit' button?
I'm sorry to sound so negative, and i haven't actually downloaded the liveCD myself yet to find out, but what i've seen of the new graphics has yet to convince me that it was a good move.
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The UI is ugly, slow, and poorly designed.
And when I say ugly, I mean UGLY.
REALLY, REALLY ugly.
Think of the worst-looking, slowest UI from a Windows 98-era hobby-project Visual Basic program that you've ever seen.
Now, imagine if it were even uglier and slower.
There, now you have Cinelerra.
I'm not trolling. If you think I am, then you've obviously never used this program. The UI is the equivilent of a website with heavy use of frames, blink tags, scrolling marquees, and "under construction" animated gifs. Seriously.
Don't believe me? OK then, I'll show you. There, that screenshot is a pretty good representation of what you'll see when you first open the program. Note the purple, teal, and tan color scheme. That's not a window manager theme, that's just this program. It always looks like that. Ugh.
I visited release.ubuntu.com and found this
SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Unitied Kingdom Metropolitan Police showed a search warrant to employers of Canonical Ltd. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Canonical Ltd and was directed at Ubuntu. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, infringement of patents held by Microsoft, assisting piracy by distributing software freely, and theft of intellectual property from the SCO unix group.
The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the Ubuntu servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including ubuntuforums, to silence any debate.
The south african entrepreneur and space tourist Mark Shuittleworth was taken in for questioning by the police, under more serious allegations of creating Ubuntu linux to harm American business interests in the companies Microsoft and Apple.