[Cialug] RE: UBUNTU

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Could this the workstation solution that we've all been looking for?


On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:23, albus wrote:
> I hate to say it, but it installs as easy or easier than winders.
> And it found everything without having to tweak the hell out of it.
> 
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "D. Joe Anderson" <deejoe@raccoon.com>
> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] RE: UBUNTU
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Korver, Aaron wrote:
> >> What is it's "catch"?  Gentoo's is compile it to optimize it, Knoppix is 
> >> run
> >> from CD, anything special about UBUNTU?
> >
> > It's a commercial distribution.  So, unlike Gentoo, Knoppix, and
> > Debian, its release engineering isn't entirely up to volunteers.
> >
> > It's aimed squarely at the desktop/laptop, newbie,
> > non-technical, non-server market (though I think they do have a
> > server version or install set or something, since in the end its
> > still GNU/Linux underneath).  The disabled root account is just
> > one example of this--the "right way" to do administrative stuff
> > is to use sudo rather than to drop into root.  If the install
> > "just works" no one should *have* to use root, anyway.  I think
> > the closest comparison here in terms of target market is the
> > MacOS X desktop market.
> >
> > It's a Debian derivative.  So, compare in that regard to Knoppix
> > or Lindows or <insert a bazillion other Debian derivatives
> > here>.
> >
> > The billionaire astronaut backing is no joke.  The money behind
> > the company behind Ubuntu comes from the South African moneybags
> > who paid for a ride on the Soyuz or something like that.  He
> > started the Thawte commercial certificate authority back in the
> > days before Network Solutions bought it up.
> >
> > That money pays several people who were already participants in
> > free software development, including some folks from the GNOME
> > project, I think.
> >
> > Release cycle:  Their plan is to follow the same kind of release
> > schedule as GNOME, which is to have a release every six months
> > come hell or high water.  This is supposed to help
> > everybody--developers and users--to plan better, I think.  If
> > someone wants to make it into the next release, they know what
> > their timeline is.  If they don't, not such a huge deal, because
> > the next one is 6 months away.  Contrast this with Debian's
> > very, uh, deliberate "when its ready" release plan.  Ubuntu's
> > first 6 month release date isn't until later this spring, so I
> > guess we'll see how it goes.  Works great for GNOME, or so they
> > tell me.
> >
> >
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