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Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx)
JimLynch writes "The open source world has been eagerly anticipating the final release of Ubuntu Linux 10.04, and now it's finally here. Canonical has been working extremely hard and it shows in the quality of this release."
And this is why I'm waiting a few weeks, until they get the initial bugs out.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Actually, not currently as the home page issues a warning about a "in development" version for lucid ...
btw, the review seems to provide little more than the press release : what about bugs ? speed ? HW compatibility and performance besides boot times - it's an OS ! - , system configuration apps, boot splash with nvidia proprietary drivers ..., what about other sister as mint, Kubuntu, or Lubuntu)
Caused by heavily packporting features from xserver 1.8 back to 1.7 and KMS from Linux 2.6.34 back to 2.6.32.
Seriously... what where they thinking? Getting such a huge memmory leak was just being ASKED FOR!
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Perhaps this will be the Ubuntu install were I have no problems like everyone else claims. Every freaking version I try installing I always seem to run into issues, and not of them are easy fixes. Oh you want native resolution fine but you will need to give up GNOME, Unless you want to install it via TAR Balls. Oh you want sound sure... But this only worked in some apps. Oh what is the fix for that. Go into you etc file and add some cryptic commands that are not in any man page.
But if say there are problems with Ubuntu and there are things that OS X or Windows handles a lot better. Be prepared for a fight and everyone calling you an idiot.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
.... to the right side of the window title bar where they belong? If it's not possible, I will not budge from 9.10 thank you very much.
Camping on quad since 1996.
Perhaps it's out of scope for MS, and not for ubuntu?
The main reason to upgrade is when %your_application% needs to be upgraded to get a new feature, or bug fixed. And the most stable times to upgrade are either early in the beta, or a month after release. For some reason, close to release (on either side of the date) is the most unstable of times.
I have a pet regression in lucid: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/545443
"Lucid on Asus EEE PC 901 and 1000H fails to connect to any wireless network". Those (pretty common, I think) netbooks have the RaLink RT2860 wireless chipset.
Some of my favourite people are from th US; Vonnegut, Chomsky, Bill Hicks.
yeah, I sulk on this one too. Hit me in 9.04, worked 9.10, bad on 10.04 again. I think it's something to do with April
For some people it was the year of the linux desktop back in '98 :).
Either way, desktop relevance is waning ('course the first time I heard THAT was back around 1998 too), and Linux came out of the gate swinging in that area. Linux very well may become the dominant OS via a method none of us ever expected.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Ubuntu has become a platform to generate revenue for canonical:
Ubuntu Music Shop Ubuntu Software Store Search Deal with Yahoo/Google
Become? They have always had a business model. If making money is a crime, quite your job. And the search deal with Yahoo fell through.
If your looking for a more stable ubuntu try Debian. It's what ubuntu is based on, and doesn't have all the fluffy feel-good stuff that ubuntu has. I'm not just trying to troll an ubuntu thread as a Debian guy, but I've heard dozens of times now about how someone is going to switch back to Windows due to problems in ubuntu. Try something else first! Ubuntu != Linux.
Maybe the mod had higher standards for jokes...
Have they fixed the pulse audio clusterfuck yet? How about flash and java working properly out of the box? (being able to watch youtube and hulu without ridiculous installs and configurations should be a serious focus for serving the general user)
i learned that too about ubuntu releases. I am pretty much the same in terms of "WANT IT NOW" when it comes to new releases, but ubuntu fucks something major up every release for at the very least one of my systems, this got so bad that now i just install the most up to date version when i install a machine, and never upgrade to a new version, the downside obviously is having all my systems run a different version (9.10 on my main, 9.04 on the laptop, 8.10 on the server etc...)
People, what a bunch of bastards
Shouldn't you be in the Apple thread? Seriously, the dude is expressing his opinion. After putting time/effort into $THING it no longer is the thing for him and he listed reasons why.
For some reason expressing an opinion results in ad hominem attacks anywhere I go anymore. "Oh well, that's user fixable, so you're retarded. Thus your are wrong."
Why you are modded insightful and not flamebait is beyond me.
No sig for you!!
since the repos are being banged harder than a barn door in a heavy wind.
Wow, you actually managed to keep things classy...
Well to be fair, you were using a beta version. You can't early adopt an OS when it's in beta, and then complain when it doesn't work perfectly.
If you did all of this and loaded Debian last week, you certainly weren't even using an RC copy. It's your own fault for installing a beta OS on your server..
Long time Gentoo user here (6 years total).
Reading your post, I sort of feel nostalgic about all that. I remember spending some time on my machine in the morning, coffee in hand, just before going to work. My machine had sync during the night and now it was time to emerge -uavp world (if I remember correctly) and see what needed upgrading. Like you said, every once in a while there was some package blocking another one, had to go to the forums to find a solution. Some days I couldn't get it to work on time so I log on from work using ssh to fix broken stuff/merge config files. I did this every morning because there was no way of knowing if package X needed upgrading because of a simple version bump or because of a serious security issue. It was also hard to resolve problem if you refused to upgrade for long period of time: searching the forums was always frustrating.
Eventually I gave up and moved to Ubuntu. It's sad really, it was a nice distro. I learn *alot* about linux using it (almost everything, basically). But at the end I was more than tired of fighting all the time to have a working computer. I'm still having nightmares about the X11->Xorg transition, the splitting up of kde into a myriad of little packages and the endless revdep-rebuild for libexpat. Ha, memories...
"real linux"? Like Ubuntu is made from cheap copy components from some nameless factory in China?
Why would I get more respect editing fstab in Debian, running a driver install script from the terminal in fedora, or compiling source code in mandrake?
What qualifies me for "real linux" user? Do I need to pick up Slackware or gentoo and compile my own kernal for a 1% improvement in speed?
Why do fanboys feel the need to splinter themselves internally, even to the point of absurdity?
*note, this is not directed specifically at you Dotancohen
Perhaps because the vast majority of their users don't use it, because it's a comparatively large package so including it excludes other more desired features, and because apt-get install gimp isn't too great a hurdle for anyone who does need it.
No one should be running Mono. It's a well-proven, extensively documented part of Microsoft's PR, FUD, and patent attack on Linux.
The real problem is that it was included to begin with. It needs to be removed at the source.
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