Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 192.35.35.34]
on October 16, 2008 03:05 PM
"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was a major dissapointment (it should never have been branded LTS - contains more bugs than any Ubuntu before it"
Empirical statements like this one flag it as being nonsense. All distro's no matter how good experience issues - some major, some minor - post release. This is a well known fact. Ubuntu 8.04 released with some major issues, they quickly fixed them, and now 8.04.1 is Canonical's best release ever. I have been testing 8.10 Kubuntu/Ubuntu and it is going to be a wonderful release, with some neat new features, but it will not be as well rounded nor as solid a release as 8.04.1 currently is.
"Ubuntu really needs a consolidation period"
No, it does not. Canonical has been doing amazingly well despite people like you making claims like this. Ubuntu is a very solid, user friendly, production ready OS - always has been, and it very quickly filled the huge gaping hole in which Mandrake left linux users back in the day. Canonical did not force Mandrake/Mandriva to make the horrific decisions it made back then, nor is it forcing Mandriva to try to play catchup with them now, yet they are and Mandriva is doing very well, thank you. Each distro fills a role, yet in the desktop OS arena, Ubuntu just hits the spot better for most users for whatever reasons. I am sure that has a lot to do with Ubuntu's parent Debian as well.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 192.35.35.34] on October 16, 2008 03:05 PMEmpirical statements like this one flag it as being nonsense. All distro's no matter how good experience issues - some major, some minor - post release. This is a well known fact. Ubuntu 8.04 released with some major issues, they quickly fixed them, and now 8.04.1 is Canonical's best release ever. I have been testing 8.10 Kubuntu/Ubuntu and it is going to be a wonderful release, with some neat new features, but it will not be as well rounded nor as solid a release as 8.04.1 currently is.
"Ubuntu really needs a consolidation period"
No, it does not. Canonical has been doing amazingly well despite people like you making claims like this. Ubuntu is a very solid, user friendly, production ready OS - always has been, and it very quickly filled the huge gaping hole in which Mandrake left linux users back in the day. Canonical did not force Mandrake/Mandriva to make the horrific decisions it made back then, nor is it forcing Mandriva to try to play catchup with them now, yet they are and Mandriva is doing very well, thank you. Each distro fills a role, yet in the desktop OS arena, Ubuntu just hits the spot better for most users for whatever reasons. I am sure that has a lot to do with Ubuntu's parent Debian as well.
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