Friday, November 13, 2009

Re: [BLUG] My Ubuntu/Linux bitch

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Joe Auty wrote:

[snipperoo]
> My main point is more of a question. Why doesn't the Ubuntu team put a
> hold on adding new features and just work their butts off getting the
> mundane unsexy stuff to work, and in improving performance overall?
[....]
> I realize that Ubuntu may not be the most conservative choice for this
> criteria, but it is also the first Desktop Linux OS that comes to mind
> for most people. They have a unique opportunity to deliver something of
> this nature and for it to be noticed. As it stands, there were a few
> past Ubuntu releases that seemed to work well enough to perhaps
> recommend, but right now the OS just seems like a big mess, and this is
> not even getting into GUI/usability issues which have always been a
> problem too, which is another story altogether...

You might want to take a look at

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7450/1.html

It installed pretty readily on an EeePC701, which is far
from the easiest hardware to install on; but I haven't gotten a
sufficiently spherical tuit yet to try putting it through its
paces....

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Beartooth Staffwright, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues
Sclerotic Squirreler, Double Retiree, Linux Evangelist
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