An operating system is good for two things. Loading programs quickly when you want it and doing it without crashing. I have to say "when you want it" there because it doesn't count if it's loading them without user interaction, aka "you've just been hacked".
Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) came out last April. I have been using this version of Ubuntu for everyday stuff and it has done the basic things you expect an operating system will do. And then some.
When my Windows XP crash I shrugged my shoulders and just hit the reset button. It's another day in Microsoft's office. Windows' most outstanding accomplishment in computing is to lower user's expectation.
The only time I had to restart Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty is when it upgraded it's kernel. This happened twice in its 6 month life. When Linux users do encounter their own version of BSOD, it's like an event you like to tell everyone for its singular strangeness.
Jaunty's replacement, Karmic, is coming. By all accounts the new Ubuntu is going to be a step above the old one. This has been the tradition of its developers. They are scattered around the world, tasked to finish their work without much material return. Ubuntu is free-as in free beer, but more importantly, its code is open to all, to read, to study, and to modify.
Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) came out last April. I have been using this version of Ubuntu for everyday stuff and it has done the basic things you expect an operating system will do. And then some.
When my Windows XP crash I shrugged my shoulders and just hit the reset button. It's another day in Microsoft's office. Windows' most outstanding accomplishment in computing is to lower user's expectation.
The only time I had to restart Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty is when it upgraded it's kernel. This happened twice in its 6 month life. When Linux users do encounter their own version of BSOD, it's like an event you like to tell everyone for its singular strangeness.
Jaunty's replacement, Karmic, is coming. By all accounts the new Ubuntu is going to be a step above the old one. This has been the tradition of its developers. They are scattered around the world, tasked to finish their work without much material return. Ubuntu is free-as in free beer, but more importantly, its code is open to all, to read, to study, and to modify.
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