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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Friday, 31 October 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 There is a lot of talk in various forums and on various sites about NetworkManager, and how it has improved networking in Ubuntu 8.10. I have never seen software that sucks more. With this release as with all previous ones which had this obnoxious piece of software, I removed it pronto and set up networking manually. Featured Whitepaper
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NetworkManager is something like poor-quality Windows software - it is flaky at best and cannot even save settings. It is anything but an improvement - all those who praise it should first get their hands dirty instead of listening to the Canonical PR machine. Any company which includes NetworkManager in its distribution needs to have the heads of all its developers examined by a qualified psychiatrist. Ubuntu 8.10 has guest sessions to allow limited access to some apps without having to log in to a regular account. Is this some kind of a revolution? One thing I have figured out is why this spate of meaningless releases keeps coming out - Mark Shuttleworth is scared of losing his userbase, which is now estimated (and there is no scientific method used for the estimate) at 8 million. It's something you pull out of the air, I guess - in the same way that I pulled the 12 million figure earlier. How about stopping the six-monthly release cycle and providing regular updates over the net instead, with an 18-month cycle when something brand new emerges? But then that would get in the way of the GNOME project trumpeting that version 2.2.2.2.2.2.2 has been released with the new Ubuntu release and it is markedly better than version 2.2.2.2.2.2.1. Oh, and it also improves the "overall desktop experience." It is, quite frankly, getting to be somewhat ridiculous. And few people are prepared to say so - no, people hate it when Ubuntu is criticised. We all have to circle the wagons, and follow a code of conduct. No shouting from the mountaintops, no loose cannons. You know the only good that I see from this spate of releases? People will tire of them and turn to some real GNU/Linux distribution like Debian. To that extent, Ubuntu is doing a wonderful job. |
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