Comments on: Ubuntu 8.10 – A Positive Evolution

By: Ed Allen

Ed Allen — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:12:43 +0000

All I can say for those who so rapidly bash things which are successful is, Blahhhhhhh !

If you don’t like Ubuntu, then use something else and go away. Ubuntu/Kubuntu are very easily used by those whose only exposure to computing has been the windows world. It installs in a straightforward manner, without any issues. I AM NOT a Linux guru or master coder and probably never will be at the age of 60 and have found both Ubuntu and Kubuntu to be a pleasure to work with. I have also tried many other distros including SuSe, Debian, PCLinuxOS, etc and find that These two are more than sufficient for my own personal needs.

IMHO,
Ed Allen

By: chris F.

chris F. — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:22:53 +0000

Ubuntu is definately on the high end of usefull linux distros,

but I agree with other comments stating that there needs to be much better and newer apps and programs,

its definately a shame, cause the system itself is rock solid,

so why aint no commercial and other programmers creating good software, for it.

even so its still about 85 percent usefull, in my opinion,

and is a definate must have on your system ,when searching for

those hard to find sites, that may be questionable?

mmmmmmmmmmmm, no crashes for me..

By: Fritz Holcomb-D.

Fritz Holcomb-D. — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:55:26 +0000

What would be nice is if a) Ubuntu 8.10 had something over the previous release and at least ONE Linux distribution would only release when the distro is worth releasing: I hate to say this, buty like Win 2k to Win XP > new features added after MANY years, not many weeks or a few months. One thing Linux has to learn from those “alternative” OSes is that a release should not come out when a new font is added, or a competitor is releasing their distro, or even when they go back to a default green color from a blue one. BSDs have the same problem. Many of us want something that comes out and is good/supported for 2-5 years so we don’t need to update/upgrade every time something goes “out of style”. This is a HUGE problem in almost ALL open source distributions. I’m not a fan of either Windows or Mac, but updates are definitely preferable to an entire new release, right?

And while I’m at it: distrowatch.com is now huge (probably why we need a new editor?), but they are all vanity distributions – where the hell is the quality in these things? It’s like Oracle copying Red Hat, renaming where applicable, and calling it “new”. Back in the day, there was Red hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, and SuSE, with a few source-based distros for the truly hardcore. Now, there are at least 20+ based on each of these, each with less worth/value than the one before it………….why don’t we put our talent into one bowl and make one SOLID distro that can truly compete in ALL areas Linux gets bashed by sys admins and business IT folks? And enough with the *buntu releases. WTF is this? What if there was a Gaybuntu for homosexuals? or an Albinobuntu for those that have albininism? or even a Coprobuntu (I’ll let you figure out this one) for everyone else? Even a Hasidibuntu for Hasidim jews, featuring copies of the Torah and Septuagint? This Ubuntu take-off is making the Linux world seem ridiculous to many outside the community, and probably even more inside. Dig(g) what I’m saying?

By: Mrugesh Karnik

Mrugesh Karnik — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:54:32 +0000

Uhh, zypper -v dup in opensuse 11

I actually did a `dist-upgrade’ from 10.3 to 11.0 using the backported zypper packages. So, yeah, don’t know about Fedora, but opensuse can be upgraded Live.

By: Armand

Armand — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:59:12 +0000

I have also ubuntu 8.10 installed on my PC, I love it so much. It’s also enhanced with the ability to support 3G networking which easily finds and detects my devices although I should make some settings with my Wifi card, but it’s perfect at all.

By: Olmec Sinclair

Olmec Sinclair — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:59:28 +0000

I have been using Ubuntu distribution for several years now and recently upgraded with a fresh install to 8.10

It feels like a well polished operating system and as a power user I love it. My biggest complaint now is around the applications. While there are thousands of promising sounding programs for the open source enthusiast, very few of them are actually offering a comprehensive level of function.

I realise that their development is for the most part done free of charge. In my opinion, this is where focus needs to be now, to polish some of the authoring tools (multimedia, graphics etc.), accounting / budgeting software and other small business tools.

By: Aberinkulas

Aberinkulas — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:31:58 +0000

Build-Essential and Ndiswrapper are both on the Ubuntu CD; they aren’t installed automatically. Just put the install CD into the drive and install them through Synaptic.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:30:32 +0000

Well,

Try to do similar with an .rpm distro: while running the system upgrade it to higher version (I mean the whole distro like from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10). I wish You good luck. From my experience (I was using SuSE, Fedora, Mandrake in the old days): .rpm based distros are probably more up to date regarding the bleeding edge software, but that doesn’t come in pair with the quality of those packages. Now I’m stuck from one and half year with debian (testing/unstable and now KDE 4 from experimental) and I must admit thats the best distro I’ve had the pleasure to work with.

MJasinski
Poznan, Poland