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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Friday, 25 April 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Another thing which is a trifle annoying is the amount of time taken to boot up and shut down. I have no idea why this is so. The first time I shut down the PC, I left the room and then came back and had a second look to see if I had actually initiated the shutdown. Maybe - just maybe - this frenetic pace of development is too much. Maybe there should be a little more time to get things in good order before opening the door and inviting visitors in. The Ubuntu releases are tied to the GNOME release cycle but there is no logic in spoiling the good name of a distribution by being entangled with a project which is known for dumbing down things. It might be a good idea to be able to stand before trying to walk. (In this context, it is worth quoting one Linus Benedict Torvalds who said: "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE.") The upgrade path for Ubuntu also seems rather murky. I'm still not clear whether you can do the same thing which you do with Debian - change the sources file if needed (if you are using release names) and then run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Debian has a remarkable update mechanism - my first update from Potato to Woody took 44 hours on a 56k modem connection. The connection died several times. Yet I had no problem at all.( Other updates from one version to the next took much less time due to the wonders of ADSL). I've also experienced some installation failures with Hardy Heron when one does not carry out a clean install and devote the entire drive to it. These appear to be random, there is no pattern at all, else I would have filed a bug. All of which leads me to one conclusion - the Ubuntu faithful will have to wait awhile before Moses appears to guide them into the promised land. Hardy Heron, in Biblical lingo, appears to be one more false prophet.
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