Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Oct 2012 18:15 UTC
Ubuntu 12.10 has been released, sporting the rather... Interesting tagline 'Avoid the pain of Windows 8'. Two main features are that websites can now be treated as actual applications, integrating them into Unity. The divide between local and online content when searching has also been softened, which, they claim, makes it easier to find what you're looking for. On the server side, it includes the Folsom release of OpenStack, "Cinder, for block storage and Quantum, a virtual networking API. Ubuntu's Metal-as-a-Service bare-metal provisioning tool has been updated and now supports Calxeda hyperscale hardware based on ARM".
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Can't stand anything Debian based...
by gfolkert on Thu 18th Oct 2012 19:15
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RE: Can't stand anything Debian based...
by lucas_maximus on Thu 18th Oct 2012 19:20
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]Well, there are a SERIOUS METRIC BUTT LOAD of Packages made up for Fedora and BSDs that are from Debian.
Guess you'll just have to remove them.
Sorry to hear your bias.
Guess you'll just have to remove them.
Sorry to hear your bias.
It is an opinion of mine, opinions are like nipples and make snarky comments isn't big or clever.
It just repackaged Open source software. I don't like Debian and I don't like anything based off Debian.
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"I am either Fedora or OpenBSD when it comes to anything *nix ... can't stand anything Debian based.
Scanners, printers and external devices are still massive problems.
Wait until Wayland is in the next release as default everything will bloody break on ubuntu."
Scanners, printers and external devices are still massive problems.
Wait until Wayland is in the next release as default everything will bloody break on ubuntu."
That's why YOU have problems with scanners, printers and external devices. Fedora itself does a pretty poor job of managing, discovering, utilising those devices, and OpenBSD ... well, it has to be worse than that, because OpenBSD has less drivers in place.
I'm an OpenBSD and Debian user myself, so I perfectly know the pains of both worlds [in terms of platforms: GNU/Linux and *BSD]. Unless you shop wisely, there's going to be the problems [but less than in the past]. The same goes to mainstream OSs, actually [like Windows]. Just don't tell me you have never experienced incompatible/buggy/badly supported hardware in Windows, 'cause I won't believe you [experienced it myself].
Last, but not least: stop whining [it's to all people] about the hardware support in GNU/Linux everytime some article shows up. I know some people will always find the problems in everything, but that's just how they minds work. Pretty unproductive. I'm sorry to say, but I find more positives, than negatives in GNU/Linux/BSD tandem and I'd never voluntarily use ANY of the Windows, nor Mac OSs.
That being said, it is uber-important that GNU/Linux/BSD doesn't get that much support when it comes to HW specs for drivers or the drivers itself. Blame vendors. But you know what? I'd rather have less, but high quality drivers, than the mass crap that works in a very funky way under other OSs. In GNU/Linux/BSD I just plug it and it works. In Windows I have to install it manually.
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I am either Fedora or OpenBSD when it comes to anything *nix ... can't stand anything Debian based.
Scanners, printers and external devices are still massive problems.
Wait until Wayland is in the next release as default everything will bloody break on ubuntu.
Edited 2012-10-18 19:09 UTC