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Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Norsefire writes to mention a Register piece reporting that early adopters are having a tough time with Karmic Koala, Ubuntu's latest release. "Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Ubuntu forums." What has been your experience if you've moved to Karmic?
>This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
That has got me thinking... How can the London stock Exchange crash twice with Windows Server in one year, but didn' t crash at all in all previous years it was running Linux? Professional quality must mean that the quality sucks...
>But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts?
They go beyond, mister. It' s called FLOSS and if you want to know what that is all about then you should read (about) the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
>It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
It is perfectly possible and already exceeding commercial projects. Commercial projects, you see, are "more money is more important than higher quality so RUSH IT OUT OF THE DOOR YESTERDAY!"
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The greatest part is that there is an exact opposite post above you posted 5 minutes earlier which has received +3 without giving any details whatsoever. And here we have a post which deals exactly with the details mentioned in the summary and, where are the mods now?
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Ran the upgrade. It crashed with a blinking text screen.
I am a 20-year Windows developer, but I have been using Ubuntu since 2006.
Understand that you were lucky.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
You have convinced me, AC. I am a dumb muthafucka and I shall get a MAC to be GAY. Thank you for your savvy and influential argument. You have changed my life.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
It was 1996 if i recall. I've been waiting since about then, anyway. You can use it as a desktop, just like you can drive nails into your balls. Its not necessarily a good idea though. I gave up waiting for reliable 3d support, games, and multi-channel sound several years back.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
I would argue that Microsoft and Apple both manage it better than Ubuntu does, at least if you measure by usable features. Linux has a kajillion features, but the majority of them are completely unusable by the average person.
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