“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 Workâ€â„¢?
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).”