Well, I guess I might as well say it. Its been 4 days now since Breezy came out and that I have been using it, but it seems they rushed it just to keep with the deadline (because everyone would hate them if they did what Microsoft did to Vista). I mean, overall its still a great distro and shall be enjoyed by many, I think I might sit out this round until some fixes come along. Now I know that when the next version comes out (can't remember what its called at htis time) it will be mostly a bug fix thing, rather than implementation of new risky technology (such as was the case with breezy) and therefore it shall be more stable, and more finished.
This is my impression of policits of Ubuntu. BTW, for those of you who haven't caught on to version numbers it goes year.month so in case of Breezy 5.10 (October 2005).
4.10 - Warty Warthog - This is where the legacy began. I tired it and liked it, but x wouldn't run (they used xfree86 then) so i couldn't really use it all that much. It was solid and finished because as the first release, they did a lot to make a good first impression.
5.04 - Hoary Hetchog - There were 2 big changes here. They went from Xfree to Xorg and the artwork improved. Now this distro was build solid and was totally bad-ass. Except for those 2 changes, it was all bugfixing and polishing.
5.10 - Breezy Badger - Well..you know the story. Lots of new features (most of them under the hood so you can't see many of them as a user) that are well, new, so its natural there are bugs, and in this unfortunate case, quite a few bugs.
So next realease, 6.04, shall be just a whole bunch of fixes for the problems caused by all these new features.
Until the fixes are made, I guess I am free to wander off into the unknown. But unlike my previous pointless "distro of the week" sprees i had before where i would install something new every weekend for like a month or 2, this time i have a purpose, or 2, well 1. For the next month my schooling is getting really hard core and there will be no days off or long weekends that I can dedicate to the installing of Gentoo and actually configuring it, therefore i shall go with a binary distro. My target is Kanotix.
My logic:
Its a debian-based distro (which means apt-get which i really like) and its not american (which means non-us sources
) so thats all good. it also has a fab reputation for out of the box hardware recognition (which is good, the less i have to config by hand, the better). Now the downside is its KDE (though i suppose it has its advantages), why do you suddenly think that i am a freak for not liking kde? I've been a gnome user for so long that KDE just doesn't do it for me anymore. Also because in my experience kde is SLOWER and BUGGIER than gnome (btw....2.12 is totally AWESOME)
I've already made the attempt to download it but the server dropped me 400mb into the download (701mb total size). Since its getting late and i have school tomorrow, i guess the downloading will have to wait till tomorrow.
just some thoughts.....
This is my impression of policits of Ubuntu. BTW, for those of you who haven't caught on to version numbers it goes year.month so in case of Breezy 5.10 (October 2005).
4.10 - Warty Warthog - This is where the legacy began. I tired it and liked it, but x wouldn't run (they used xfree86 then) so i couldn't really use it all that much. It was solid and finished because as the first release, they did a lot to make a good first impression.
5.04 - Hoary Hetchog - There were 2 big changes here. They went from Xfree to Xorg and the artwork improved. Now this distro was build solid and was totally bad-ass. Except for those 2 changes, it was all bugfixing and polishing.
5.10 - Breezy Badger - Well..you know the story. Lots of new features (most of them under the hood so you can't see many of them as a user) that are well, new, so its natural there are bugs, and in this unfortunate case, quite a few bugs.
So next realease, 6.04, shall be just a whole bunch of fixes for the problems caused by all these new features.
Until the fixes are made, I guess I am free to wander off into the unknown. But unlike my previous pointless "distro of the week" sprees i had before where i would install something new every weekend for like a month or 2, this time i have a purpose, or 2, well 1. For the next month my schooling is getting really hard core and there will be no days off or long weekends that I can dedicate to the installing of Gentoo and actually configuring it, therefore i shall go with a binary distro. My target is Kanotix.
My logic:
Its a debian-based distro (which means apt-get which i really like) and its not american (which means non-us sources
) so thats all good. it also has a fab reputation for out of the box hardware recognition (which is good, the less i have to config by hand, the better). Now the downside is its KDE (though i suppose it has its advantages), why do you suddenly think that i am a freak for not liking kde? I've been a gnome user for so long that KDE just doesn't do it for me anymore. Also because in my experience kde is SLOWER and BUGGIER than gnome (btw....2.12 is totally AWESOME)I've already made the attempt to download it but the server dropped me 400mb into the download (701mb total size). Since its getting late and i have school tomorrow, i guess the downloading will have to wait till tomorrow.
just some thoughts.....
