A Gut Check On Gutsy Gibbon 390
jammag writes "Linux pundit Bruce Byfield looked inside the pre-release of Gutsy Gibbon and found what he calls 'Windows thinking.' His article, Divining from the Entrails of Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon, notes that Ubuntu is the dominant distro, having achieved a level of success that might be leading to complacency. He opines: 'Only once or twice did I find a balance between accessibility to newcomers and a feature set for advanced users. At times, I wondered whether the popularity might be preventing Ubuntu from finishing some rough edges.'"
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The review is hilarious (Score:3, Funny)
My response? Open a shell.
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Re:Name? (Score:5, Funny)
I just refer to it as Gibbon when necessary; when questioned about why the name Gibbon was chosen, I tell them it's to recognize the hard work of all the codemonkeys.
I haven't yet been challenged on the fact that Gibbons are apes, not monkeys, so I'm sticking to my story.
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So I can't compile 32-bit c++ apps on Gutsy, when this really is a basic thing that, for example, Fedora gets right. This is something that most "users" probably won't notice... but isn't that Windows mentality?
And I'm not really just complaining pedantically -- my CS class provides some 32-bit reference binaries, so to link to those I have to compile against 32-bit.
Re:Gah! (Score:2, Funny)
What I meant to say was 'is "apt-get update install xasd fdsix ikispkg mnfklsad --v" that much better than "click, click, click, click, click"?'
But then I got distracted by LOLcats, and by extension, LOLrats.
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Yeah, they should have stuck with the Debian system of naming releases after toys. High-paid executives in swanky offices practically swoon with delight when offered the chance to rubber-stamp the use of an OS named after toys.
I swear, it's that apt-get shit. It fucks with their brains.