[Cialug] Ubuntu release & sour grapes blogging

[Chris Louden]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:06 AM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> Anyone running the latest Ubuntu release from yesterday? I haven't grabbed
> it yet but probably will give it a look this weekend to try it out... even
> though I'll stick with Mandriva 2009 for my main systems.

I have been running 8.10 64bit since Alpha 6 and on through the BETA
releases. Running it on a Lenovo T61 which is my primary PC. I
downloaded the .ISOs last night of the formal release and will be
doing a clean install of the 32 bit this weekend. I prefer the 64 so
that I fully use the hardware to its abilities but there are issues
with several plug-ins like Flash where it is not always stable. I
haven't used a 32bit distro in over 2 years so i like to see how
stable it can be. If Its worth it I'll keep it otherwise I will do a
clean install of the 64bit from the final release in a few weeks.

I'm a bit biased as I prefer Debian based to anything .rpm based.
However I am really happy with it.

>
> I ran across this blog entry a couple of days ago while googling for
> something else. I would take what he says with a big grain of salt... and I
> understand how someone who's trying to sell a Linux distro might be a little
> frustrated with Ubuntu. In related news, Shuttleworth announced that he
> thinks Ubuntu will become profitable in 2 or 3 years, and that he's willing
> to keep supporting it with his own money until then.
>

I really appreciate what he is doing. I think the Ubuntu community at
large does as well.

> http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/10/28/why-i-dont-like-canonical/
>
> My personal take on it is that monoculture isn't good, and while Ubuntu
> isn't there yet, they have certainly become what RedHat was a few years ago
> - just about the de-facto standard version of Linux, at least for desktop
> Linux. I think the author of the blog entry above isn't completely fair - I
> understand that Ubuntu does contribute some back to the community, and they
> have done a huge amount of Linux advocacy.
>
> I don't like Ubuntu because it used Gnome by default, but that's pretty easy
> to fix by putting a "K" in front of it and downloading Kubuntu. I see on
> Distrowatch.com that Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, UbuntuStudio, and others are
> available too.
>
> -dc
>
>
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