Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:04 UTC
It is that time of year again: a new Ubuntu release is upon us. The beta version of Ubuntu 8.04 was released a few days ago, so I decided to give it a try and see what new features and improvements they have shoved into this one. As always, this is as much a preview of the latest GNOME release (2.22) as it is of Ubuntu itself. Read on for the preview.
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Member since:2005-07-12
I'm afraid that if future releases continue the trend of having significant bugs, that it will detract from the same new community that Canonical has helped create, and give some users a bad impression of Linux overall.
If the situation is as bad as you portray it, people will stop advocating Ubuntu and start using other distros as test beds for noobs.
No need to worry. The same thing happened to Mandrake/Mandriva.
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2007-06-24
As the title says, Ubuntu is the Linux distribution that frightens me most. Canonical has done some great things to make Ubuntu a household name for Linux, as well as bring many new users over to the operating system. The reason I'm afraid of Ubuntu is because of the power they hold over the future of Linux adoption. Just as Canonical has brought so much to the community, I'm afraid they could end up taking away from it as well. Perhaps it's only me, but as many strides have been made in each new release of Ubuntu, I feel like it is becoming buggier and more problematic each release. It may just be my hardware, but each new release I have had more problems than the last. I just hope that Canonical can keep things moving forward without losing the reason many people choose Linux in the first place - speed and stability. I'm afraid that if future releases continue the trend of having significant bugs, that it will detract from the same new community that Canonical has helped create, and give some users a bad impression of Linux overall.