Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10 is the Appetizer; Ubuntu 10.04 is the Meal

By: CONSTANTIN SPYROU

CONSTANTIN SPYROU — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:57:11 +0000

I made my copy of the Ubuntu 9.10 LTS and I was very pleased at the performance. Only one thing was at fault: the stability of the system was marginal at some points. Would I buy it? Yes! as soon as the minor, but important issues of stability are completed. Would I sell it? Again, with great enthusiasm, under the previous mentioned required improvements… I have never checked the cloud option, considering it utter luxury and cost, to replace the entire system, which I have and it works well.

By: Blue20

Blue20 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:03:55 +0000

Yeah but will it run crisis?

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:50:31 +0000

To reiterate: The poll was referring to Ubuntu in a cloud such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) — not Ubuntu One, which is a storage and file sharing service.

By: yman

yman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:15:45 +0000

And WorksWithU really needs a fivicon.

By: yman

yman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:14:47 +0000

waterfront@15:
That poll isn’t talking about UbuntuOne.

By: Luke has no name

Luke has no name — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:34:22 +0000

I don’t understand the hate on Brasero. I think it’s one of the more usable tools I’ve encountered.

The 3% comment for cloud offerings is an embarrassing number to boast about.

All that said, I think Ubuntu needs to have an end-to-end platform to succeed. It’s looking to get into the enterprise, and I think it will succeed at this only by making enterprise deployments easy and scalable. This requires a server backend for a custom repository and installation server, at the least. Then of course, it would be good if Ubuntu could get into the general server market, which I think it’s doing a pretty good job at honing.

Someone else stated, and I agree, that targeting SMB would be a market not yet targeted by a ton of vendors, like large companies are.

By: waterfront

waterfront — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:32:16 +0000

“But now, a RESPECTABLE 3% of WorksWithU readers say they’re going to run Ubuntu 9.10 in a cloud configuration, according to our recent reader poll (nearly 700 readers have so far participated).”

Is that supposed to be a joke or mistyped? not funny to me. What`s respectable in 21 user of Ubuntu One.

“Get a decent DVD burner, for God’s sake!”

Agree with Deepak 101%

By: deepak

deepak — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:29:37 +0000

Have been using Ubuntu for about 3 years now, and it still remains my default OS. The holes that remain are:

- Video rendering still needs work despite vdpau drivers
- Robust email client (Evolution is too heavy, T.bird buckles under load)
- Better ntfs-3g support: too many errors on NTFS drives still
- WiFi is still a weak spot
- Bloat should be reduced, user should have options to remove unnecessary elements
0 Get a decent DVD burner, for God’s sake!

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:29 +0000

The thing that puts Ubuntu as a desktop OS a head of other OSs is the way it brings together almost all the good things from FOSS/Linux, Windows and the Mac. It also happens to be free. The one major thing that is missing is sufficient ISV support to really make it a major competitor to Windows.

Hopefully that will change with support from the likes of Dell, IBM and the other smaller system builders.

By: Aqeel

Aqeel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:19:29 +0000

personally, I somehow agree with ‘Josh’, there is a hype surrounding Ubuntu, and yes it made enhancement to the desktop, but seriously talking what make it ‘ahead’ of other linux desktops? windows desktop or even Mac?

I’m not saying that Canonical is not doing anything or looking down at their desktop contribution, no, my point is they made linux desktop usable. Okay, what then?
Hence, Ubuntu is what I would say an average, there is no ‘real’ thing in the manner of ‘extra’ feature, ’special’ feature, or its ‘own’ feature.

Take for example the dock, coverflow, spotlight that Mac invented, they distinguish Mac from others. Look at windows – i’m not believing i’m saying this – the Messenger looks just fabulous, and when Google Chrome OS will come, it will definitely come with a ‘wow’.

At the time that Canonical decides to make its ‘own’ enhancement/version of Gnome, then the hype will be for real.