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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
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.
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.
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.
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
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..
"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.