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:Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad
Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad
Nov 6, 2009, 00 :04 UTC (21 Talkback[s]) (11312 reads)

(Other stories by Christopher Smart)

"Ubuntu is starting to make dents in the commercial arena and that’s great, but do we really need fancy new features like Ubuntu One when basic functionality (that quite frankly should be solved in the 21st century) doesn’t work as expected? Isn’t Ubuntu supposed to “Just Work”™? Don’t believe me? Just take a look at the release notes for 9.10 and read the 40 odd bugs for this “stable” operating system:

"Boot from degraded RAID array broken
File system corruption with so called “large files” over 512MB
Hibernation unavailable with automatic partitioning
Kubuntu package manager does not warn about installing from unsigned package repositories
No USB devices work on MSI Wind netbooks, plus flickering graphics
No Xv support for Intel graphics
Samba nmbd daemon not started during boot
System won’t boot with converted ext4 file system
Ubuntu Netbook Remix missing shutdown applet
Ubuntu One client corrupts data
Wireless kill switch segfaults kernel
X server crashes when using a Wacom tablet
..and others (plus more discovered after release)."

Complete Story

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This is a poorly done article.First of a ...   re: article not true, nobody is forced to use linu   
krazypenguin
Nov 6, 2009, 01:05:28
 
I'd go along with that. Regressions  ...   Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad   
pmorton
Nov 6, 2009, 01:13:10
 
Anyone else get the feeling this guy isb ...   Paid To Say Bad Things About Linux   
Tired of Violent, Harmful People
Nov 6, 2009, 01:33:12
 
While I would agree that Ubuntu is a bit ...   RE: " Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad"   
Daemon_ZOGG
Nov 6, 2009, 01:47:01
 
The interesting thing about Ubuntu is th ...   Ubuntu regresses with each new release   
Chris
Nov 6, 2009, 02:07:08
 
Dear Early Adopters of Ubuntu 9.10:Why s ...   Patience, Grasshopper   
epaminondas
Nov 6, 2009, 05:45:30
 
I think I'll have to side with the a ...   Justified criticism   
Golodh
Nov 6, 2009, 08:35:09
 
No, he is being paid to report a story.  ...   Tired of unreliable linux distributions   
Fewt
Nov 6, 2009, 14:09:30
 
All software ships with bugs, some known ...   Compare this proprietary software releases   
Toby Haynes
Nov 6, 2009, 15:52:31
 
> Anyone else get the feeling this guy i ...   Re: Paid To Say Bad Things About Linux   
I R A Darth Aggie
Nov 6, 2009, 16:26:12
 
All software ships with bugs, some known ...   Re: Compare this proprietary software releases   
grep
Nov 6, 2009, 16:32:05
 
> ...the latest Ubuntu release suffers f ...   Re: Justified criticism   
Tony OBryan
Nov 6, 2009, 16:51:46
 
Compared to all other so-called desktop  ...   Looking Bad?   
Tony OBryan
Nov 6, 2009, 17:12:50
 
The biggest danger in the Ubuntu == Linu ...   Ubuntu != Linux   
Vikram
Nov 6, 2009, 17:57:20
 
> Mandriva's software repositories h ...   Re: Looking Bad?   
Rufus Polson
Nov 6, 2009, 18:00:54
 
> All software ships with bugs, some kno ...   Re: Re: Compare this proprietary software releases   
Kevin Hudson
Nov 6, 2009, 18:06:03
 
I am a longtime Unix and Linux "evangeli ...   Conical wrongly changed focus.   
Kevin Hudson
Nov 6, 2009, 19:50:09
 
 However, there is NO reason for a GNU/L ...   Re: Re: Compare this proprietary software releases   
Toby Haynes
Nov 6, 2009, 20:31:45
 
> I frankly find that hard to believe.My ...   Re: Re: Looking Bad?   
Tony OBryan
Nov 6, 2009, 21:19:15
 
> > Anyone else get the feeling this guy ...   Re: Re: Paid To Say Bad Things About Linux   
Linux Commenter
Nov 6, 2009, 23:04:48
 
> Another problem one of perception. Tha ...   Re: Conical wrongly changed focus.   
blackhole
Nov 7, 2009, 07:23:47
 
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