Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 24th Mar 2008 04:42 UTC
"I like Ubuntu. With each incarnation I'm seeing improvements and betterments that make the OS better, more robust, more user friendly and more fully-featured. In fact, Ubuntu 8.04 is the first Linux distro that I've come across that I would consider loading onto my notebook to replace Windows. Throughout my testing Ubuntu 8.04 beta has been reliable and performed flawlessly. Bottom line, Hardy Heron is, for me at least, the best Linux distro ever," writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes.
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RE[4]: Best Linux distro ever?
by intangible on Mon 24th Mar 2008 18:22
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RE[5]: Best Linux distro ever?
by slight on Mon 24th Mar 2008 18:54
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I used RedHat and then Fedora for a few years before moving to Ubuntu and I wouldn't say they were any worse for upgrades to be honest. Yum is slow but apart from that I think they're pretty much of a muchness. Personally I prefer apt to yum, but I know people who have very valid dislike of debs due to the fact they can only hold a unified patch rather than a separate patch for each item being patched in the upstream source.
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2006-09-10
I'm not the OP, but after using Ubuntu as my main OS for about 5 releases I'm done with it. There's a lot to like about Ubuntu, I think they've done a huge amount for general usability in Linux, especially for end users, but their quality control is just not good enough.
There are major regressions in every release (just check the message boards after a release for the slew of "my xyz device doesn't work any more!", and my personal experience, using Ubuntu on a desktop, laptop, my girlfriend's computer and a home server, is that out of about 14 upgrades I've done of Ubuntu, probably about 5 of them have upgraded cleanly without dying in the middle of the process for one reason or another. I hasten to add I'm not someone who uses Automatix, or lots of third party debs, I stick to the main repos wherever I can.
I really think that Ubuntu is too focussed on its release schedule and is too willing to ship with what I personally consider major bugs.
Anyway as I say, apart from the quality control I think Ubuntu is great and I wish them luck, but I'm off to mamma Debian.
I haven't specifically answered your question, and I haven't reported many bugs recently, but here's a list of bugs I've either reported or subscribed, or those bugs that my reports were found to be duplicates of.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~slight-/?field.searchtext=&orderby=-impo...