Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 01:14 UTC
I upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon a few days ago only to be greeted with an additional feel of polish and goodness. Read more for our mini preview.
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RE: Gotta love open source helping it's competitors
by spikeb on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 01:28
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RE: Gotta love open source helping it's competitors
by g2devi on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 19:20
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As a former Fedora user, it's blatantly obvious how much Ubuntu copied from Fedora's initial success and how much Fedora in turn copied from Ubuntu when Ubuntu got more successful. I've always felt that Ubuntu and Fedora were sister distros, so it's good to see that they're now collaborating to solve some common problems.
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2005-11-05
Nice work Eugenia. A fair and honest review of Gutsy. You might attribute a good chunk of the polish to cross distro coordination. Fedora and Ubuntu upstreams have been working together a whole lot. Here are a few examples:
When using fast-user-switch-applet and switching to a new user, the username is already selected and you just have to type your password. It was really lame to use the shiny mac os-like applet to select a new user only to be put at a normal login prompt. This was mostly fedora's work with consolekit and gdm.
Fedora's system-config-printer is the default printer configuration tool. The ubuntu team submitted enough bugfixing patches that one of the canonical guys has commit rights for s-c-m.
Ubuntu 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon will be a solid release.