Yesterday afternoon my test mule was just sitting there minding it's own, I wasn't even using it at the time (it was a fresh install of Karmic I was planning to use to do some Intel driver benchmarks / dependency research) and it presented me with this wonderful screen:
May I present to you: WinKarmic Millennium Edition.
May I present to you: WinKarmic Millennium Edition.
6 comments:
You're not alone in wondering where Ubuntu are going....and what they will break next. I've started to use Sabayon instead. It may be no better or worse than A.N.Other linux distro but hey it's not Ubuntu....!
I totally agree, but it's not just Karmic, for me it was Jaunty that put me off.
Stuff that worked before suddenly didn't, close to no new features and so on.
And then Karmic comes along with more of the same.
Honestly, the thing I want most at the moment is a Mac. I've never had or wanted one before, but the quality of Ubuntu is not just not progressing - it's going down!
Never did I have so many crashes, a completely self-disintegrating system, and basics not working like network or printing or mouse sensitivity or usb drives .. (I could go on and on) as in Jaunty and Karmic.
I'm not an Apple Fanboy, nor a Windows disciple I do save up for a Mac Pro and a cheap Seven PC right next to it. Sad, that it has come that way.
I did clean install of Karmic with no problems.. i had 9.04 with no problems.. but still that doesn't say anything.. if u want to compare Ubuntu with other distros or OS-es just compare it with a LTS edition and not with an edition that comes out every 6 months... Dont forget Windows new versions come out after many years and not to mention about Vista that was the PAYED beta version of SEVEN
Karmic is indeed a disappointment.
Especially folks that upgraded from 9.04 encountered many small or bigger problems.
Fortunately Linux offers so many wonderful choices.For me the last year or so sounded my return to the arms of Debian.Good luck Ubuntu,hope the 10.04 LTS is a much better version than the last 2.
try slackware or suffer
@baker
If you compare the regular Ubuntu releases with other distributions with similar release cycles, you will find that Ubuntu stands out as the shittiest.
If you compare Ubuntu LTS to other distributions with similar release cycles, Ubuntu will stand out as the shittiest. In this case it even manages to be shittier than Debian core.
The issue is that both Debian and Ubuntu maintainers choose to branch all of the upstream software. They lack both the skill and man-power to properly maintain and test the changes they make to upstream packages. They also lack the insight to back down when their patches are inevitably rejected by upstream package maintainers.
Though the size of Debian/Ubuntu's repositories is often cited as their greatest strength, the fact that an enormous number of those packages are non-functioning sort of detracts from that argument.
Additionally the argument that the "community" is better because it's bigger sort of fails when you look at much smaller communities on the OpenSource community that are managing their projects in a far more professional manner.
The fact that Ubuntu is "free", is not much of an argument when the reason most of us use this software is not it's initial monetary cost... but it's long-term monetary value in that Linux in general is more stable and easier to use for our use-cases than is Windows.
Ubuntu has made a distribution that is less stable, less easy to maintain, with a community of people less skilled than on for pay operating systems... thus negating all possible benefits of using a *nix distribution.
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