“My heart sank a little bit as I sat through 2-3 minutes of what
can only be described as ‘error messages’ while this early release
of Gutsy Gibbon booted on my virtual machine–although it came
through in the end. Here we have the Alpha 2 release of Ubuntu 7.10
Gutsy Gibbon for me to cast a preliminary eye over 3 months prior
to release.“The most popular Linux distro at the moment has another release
due before too long and this is the Alpha 2 release of it–so
whatever judgment I pass here has very little weight over the final
release; it should be read as more of a brief investigation into
how the project is shaping up…”
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