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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard
walterbyrd writes "Linux magazine has up a decent article comparing Gutsy Gibbon to Leopard. 'The stereotype for each OS is well known: Mac OS X is elegant, easy-to-use, and intuitive, while Ubuntu is stable, secure, and getting better all the time. Both have come a long way in a short time, and both make excellent desktops. So we have two great desktop operating systems out at roughly the same time. Let's see how they stack up against each other.'"
Argh, I tried to install GG on my system at home (athlon 64 x2) and on my Stinkpad T61 (intel core2duo). No go for either. It looked like the problem was that, in both instances, my DVD/CD drives are SATA. I don't know why this would be a problem, but it was. This was with the 32-bit version of GG, btw. OTOH, I installed Solaris 10 Dev Edition fine on both (x64 version). As a side note, while I love zfs, the Solaris directory structure and way of doing things is making me crazy. I'm going back to FreeBSD as soon as there's a RELEASE with stable zfs support. At least I, in my simple-minded state, can understand the way BSD works. Trying to figure out which directory software got installed into makes me want to gouge out my eyes. Why can't it just go into /usr/local? argh!