The Ubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.04 of the Ubuntu family of distributions (more info here and here). Ubuntu 7.04 is also the basis for new 7.04 releases of Kubuntu (screenshots) and Edubuntu. Ubuntu 7.04 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers. Here is a review of Feisty Fawn, and it also seems that Michael Dell has it installed too. Get it while it's hot.
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Member since:2006-06-15
Why would we have to mod you down? Are you that childish?
Don't care what you think. I've been with Mandriva/Red Hat, and for me they were just junk. I don't spend time writing my opinion on each Mandriva/RH news, though...
And when I'm talking junk, I especially think about their ###### system-administration tools 
Feisty just work with the 3 computers I've installed it on, and just flies on the athlon 800 mhz I'm using atm. No tweaks, everything recognised by default.
That's why so many ppl use it - not because of the hype (I considered Mandriva junk even when it was "the thing" back when they were called Mandrake) - but because it works for them. Guess you think that since because it doesn't work on your hardware, it's not possible it works perfectly for the majority of ppl using it. Usually, people tends to understand that the world doesn't revolves around them in their 3rd or 4rth year. I bet you're quite the gifted baby 
I'm quite happy Mandriva/Red Hat work better for others, and I don't think just because they don't work for me they should be junk for everybody else.
Member since:2007-02-17
{The live-CD needs e.g. a whopping five minutes for booting,}
A liveCD has to discover all your hardware, make configuration files to suit, then boot the OS.
How long does it take a Windows liveCD to discover your hardware ... ... ... ... oh, wait.
{I am really disappointed. IMO, Mandrivas Spring release, which is not as popular as Ubuntus Feisty as it seems, is a hell of a lot better.}
Meh. Try Kubuntu. IMO its better.
{Sorry, guys, but from my experience, Ubuntu is definitely not "the best" distro out there. Neither in feature richness (pure debian), nor in administrative-tools (Mandriva/Fedora/RHEL), ease of use (Mandriva),system security (Fedora/RHEL) or stability (Slackware, RHEL, debian).}
So don't use it then.
Personally, I rate PCLinuxOS above them all, but Kubuntu wins for me because it is more popular, and hence there is a large choice of software available for it and a much larger community means it has better support.
I'm not convinced that you aren't just out to try to find something negative to type about Ubuntu. That wouldn't suprise me one little bit. It would seem that there are a large number of people being "monetarily incentivated" to do something like that this week.
Member since:2006-10-17
You haven't heard of Bart PE? Do a google search for them, it's a handy tech tool even if it's only to soothe people's insecurities when they "don't want you breaking their system with that damned Knoppix thingy" and you don't have the hour to explain it to them like they're 6 so they'll get it.
That said, last I used it it was about as fast as Knoppix, which is actually faster than the Ubuntu LiveCD.
In more mainstream media, possibly. It would take quite a bit of tin-foil hat mentality for me to believe that there would be shills planting seeds of dissent on places like this. As great a site as this is, it doesn't have the exposure that things like PC Magazine have, so the MoG's of the world will target those.
Member since:2005-07-06
Its ok your disappointed! Carry on with Redhat and Mandriva...
For me and for my company we have installed Ubuntu on 48 machines with different hardware and its working the same way on all machines and all users are happy. I'm also happy to support them!
I've also seen people complaining about Ubuntu hype... but for me I've not seen Ubuntu creating that hype... its the end users who are cherishing it. If it was not worth people would have thrown it... but Ubuntu is worth of that hype... it may not be as polish as everyone expectations but the path on which its walking its worth noticing.
Member since:2005-07-06
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2006-04-19
All this talk about "feisty - amazing" "wait for it, it is marvelous" "Everything jut works" etc in the past few weeks was raising expectations. Now I have tested Feisty and it is slow and buggy.
The live-CD needs e.g. a whopping five minutes for booting, gparted clutters my desktop with dozens of nautilus windows for partitions that were not mounted before I clicked on the gparted icon, the software-install-app is still far from ideal, there are no usable runtime-level based config-tools for services by default and and and.
I am really disappointed. IMO, Mandrivas Spring release, which is not as popular as Ubuntus Feisty as it seems, is a hell of a lot better. Ubuntu has still a long way to go until their system-administration tools and its security are on a par with distros like Fedora or Mandriva.
Sorry, guys, but from my experience, Ubuntu is definitely not "the best" distro out there. Neither in feature richness (pure debian), nor in administrative-tools (Mandriva/Fedora/RHEL), ease of use (Mandriva),system security (Fedora/RHEL) or stability (Slackware, RHEL, debian). Feisty is basically a mediocre distro imho - but it gets really good marketing.
Now.. let's see how fast I will get modded down by the Ubuntu-fanboys.