Update: A Month With Ubuntu To Commence
by Ryan Smith on February 15, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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As I discussed in my last blog post, some time in the near future we will be doing a month-long review on Ubuntu to see if it's ready & capable as serving as my main desktop OS. After soliciting your feedback on the matter (and we really are amazed at the feedback; 131 comments) we have decided to go ahead and immediately start the process with Ubuntu 7.10, rather than waiting a few months for the 8.04 release. We appreciate the feedback and a lot of good arguments were made on both sides, but we've decided we want to bring this review to you sooner than later. We'll take a look at 8.04 separately when it ships. Expect at least a couple of blog posts related to the review throughout the next month.
For those of you seeking more Linux-focused articles, we'll also be fulfilling your wishes in the near future. Along with our month-long look at Ubuntu, we'll be bringing out some other articles. We'll have more to talk about this once the first of these articles are ready.
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yyrkoon - Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - link
Uh, windows has a very advanced command line, one that is far more extensive than most people who do not bother reading the documentation think. Especially now with Powershell.Many system users no matter what Platform find it much easier to get *real* things done via the CLI. There are things people can do from the CLI in Linux, or Windows, that I am sure would blow your mind.
Oh, and, there is a reason why Linux has, and can use X. Perhaps you should do a bit of googling around for keywords such as xfree86, KDE, Gnome, Beryl, Compiz fusion, etc ? Lots of 'pretty eye candy' for those who can not find a use for a good CLI . . .
stmok - Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - link
Its not polite to make generalisations or to name call.The command line is the most direct and guaranteed way to get what you exactly desire in a system. It gives you complete control in a no nonsense manner.
Have you not ever encountered a situation where clicking something didn't work, and you ended up in frustration?
And by the way, I find it interesting that even Microsoft has their own shell. ie: Windows PowerShell.
In fact, what's more interesting, is that when you compare the Windows PowerShell to Bash (in Linux, Unix, etc), they're near identical!
yyrkoon - Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - link
"In fact, what's more interesting, is that when you compare the Windows PowerShell to Bash (in Linux, Unix, etc), they're near identical!"Well actually, Linux CLI objects are all text based, Windows power shell object are true objects. There is a big difference, but the end results from using either can be the same, it *may* just take a bit more work to use a text based object in a fashion that is usefull.
stmok - Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - link
Sorry, I should say they're near identical when you're typing commands.bersl2 - Saturday, February 16, 2008 - link
info bash^^^ That is more.
Why the FSF doesn't believe in man pages, though, I will never know.
perzy - Friday, February 15, 2008 - link
In Linux there's allways a better version coming 'soon'.And I admire you Ryan for doing this...many people will read it and enjoy it.
But the Linux-talibans...well maybe it's its esasier to face Talibans in Afganistan! ;-)
nightstorm - Friday, February 15, 2008 - link
This is great ive been toying around with the idea to move over to Linux for a while now rather than go down the old route of paying yet more money for the "latest and greatest" offering from Microsoft.Ill be holding off my upgrade to Windows Vista 64bit for a bit longer now.
R3MF - Friday, February 15, 2008 - link
opensuse 11.0 with a pre-release KDE 4.1 due in June is one to watch for a future review however.