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What’s Wrong with Ubuntu 7.04

[ Thanks to Dan Warne
for this link. ]

Now I’m as fond of Ubuntu as the next penguin, but I’m a bit of
distro whore really — I’m always trying new ones and my current
system has all of Gentoo, SuSE and Ubuntu installed (and some other
niche operating system on the other partition–Windows Vista I
think it’s called).

“So given that I don’t pledge loyalty to any particular distro,
I usually come at them with a critical eye. It’s love, mostly. I
love Linux and want it to succeed in the areas it doesn’t
currently, so I’m usually straight about what does and doesn’t
work–because tip-toeing the issues isn’t doing the community any
favours. I have great expectations for 7.04, and unfortunately
they’re not all met. If you’re a fanboy, don’t read on, because
I’ll shatter your fragile world…”

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