On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:32:51PM -0500, patricia campbell wrote: > http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7600/1.html
That article is just lame. I'm no Ubuntu fan, but you have to give it to
them: they have improved the user experience big time and pushed the
boundaries, with live CDs and aggressive release schedules, which makes
it one of the most interesting distributions out there, competing on the
levels of Debian and Redhat (oh sorry, that's dead rat), which have been
around forever.
Ubuntu have Long Term Support (LTS) releases, and those are maintained
and improved upon for years. You can't expect a distribution shipping a
*NEW PRODUCT* every 6 months to be as stable as others that polish their
product for at least as long as the release cycle of Ubuntu itself.
8.04-LTS has been released in april 2008 and will be maintained for
almost two more years. If people look for stability, they should look
there (or at Debian, but that's just me ;).
Oh, and speaking of which: Debian, CentOS, all the other distros out
there (including Linux itself) all have bugs. Sometimes critical ones.
The issue is what we do about it. Ubuntu has taken the stance of biting
the bullet of fixing them and shipping them as fast as possible. You
can't possibly do that without breaking a few eggs here and there.
Debian, on the other hand, looks far more stable, which is fine for
servers and all, but I often go back to running unstable on my
workstation(s) because I like the fluffy new software gizmos that come
out...
So what constructive criticism can we find in that article? Nothing.
"Get your act together or other distros are going to take over."
Boo-fraking-hoo... And anyways, if Ubuntu sucks, "Linux" (the kernel?
gnu/linux? wtf is this guy talking about anyways) also sucks, because
Ubuntu is just packaging software that's already out there, and very
likely broken to bits.
That's why we ship software like this all the time. So that people can
try it out and we can fix the bugs. Ubuntu releases should be considered
release candidates for the LTS series and Debian official releases (oh
and a great testing ground for all this new software you can't try
anywhere else).
Give my cousins a break already.
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Au main de l'individu, elle se nomme crime.
- Bérurier Noir
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