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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Released

Posted by kdawson on from the have-at-it dept.

Lots of readers told us about the official release of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (screenshots here for Ubuntu and Kubuntu). Some readers report that the distribution servers are being hammered. Here is a review of Feisty Fawn. Reader LinuxScribe sends us to LinuxPlanet for the story on a pleasant Java surprise in the release.

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  1. Gentoo has failed me too many times by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am going to try this ungla bunga linux out, and I will advise...

    My beef with "turnkey" distros is they always seem to be missing something I need.

    For example, I have 4 drives encrypted (dm-crypt).. Does unga bunga have all the device mapper and crypt support built into its kernel?

    Also, I auth against an LDAP machine, so I need nss-ldap and pam-ldap and all of that jibber jabber. Samba needs to be able to join my samba-controlled domain, too.

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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
    1. Re:Gentoo has failed me too many times by stratjakt · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      My problem has always been the packages are missing something I need. Like SAMBA wont have CUPS support or LDAP, or whatever. There's always some --enable-bullshit flag that's left out.

      The last time I played with Debian (admittedly, years ago), it was pretty rough this way.

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      I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  2. Re:And we don't care. by crush · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We already have GNU/Debian for that Only for the moment. Canonical is trying (unsuccesfully at the moment because they don't offer a convincing long-term support package in part because some of their included software is closed/proprietary) to move into the commercial/enterprise market. This hurts distros like Debian because there's always some careless, ignorant manager that will switch based on the hype from his over-excited junior sysadmins. Ubuntu/Canonical's strategy of pushing non-Free software is dangerous for all Linux users, including ironically the users of Ubuntu itself (but if the profiles are anything to be believed these are largely people that were perfectly happy using Microsoft and Apple OSs and just want a free/low-price OS, so they probably don't care).