kryton9
29-04-2007, 04:27
I started to talk about it another thread and realized it would take away from the main thread so decided to start this one.
It is about the latest Ubuntu Feisty Farn edition. It is really something else. If you wanted to tinker with linux and were reluctant, this would be on to try. It is such an improvement over the 6 month old previous version, Edgy Eft, which itself was quite a nice system already.
My only complaint is the lack of support from outside hardware manufacturers to provide drivers. Ubuntu is taking up the job of writing drivers themselves and they did a great job in the last 6 months. Also there are other sites offering hardware companies free driver writing for them if they provide the hardware info to write the drivers. They will do the work for free provided the guidance to the hardware. Yet companies are reluctant?
The market is millions around the world, not a small number just because it is not huge overall market share, in addition the hardware is tied to the drivers, so unlike a software company tying to sell a title to linux users, I agree, the opensource mindset is probably limiting the appeal, but for hardware makers it makes no sense. They have a physical product to sell to these users. I guess that is why I am not a businessman, I don't see the logic in so many of the decisions.
If you guys however want to tinker with linux, I can't say enough about the latest Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn version, they did a superb job.
It seea all of my notebook hardware much better than windows XP, except for the wireless internal softswitch lan card, but it sees the regular lan card just fine. And the wireless i just did a few simple steps and got it working.
The Beryl 3D Desktop and Emerald Theme managers are amazing. I actually finally got my 64 bit notebook running in 64 bits with the cleanest desktop ever since OS2. I just have one icon to access everything the rest is my wallpaper. Very nice!!
It is about the latest Ubuntu Feisty Farn edition. It is really something else. If you wanted to tinker with linux and were reluctant, this would be on to try. It is such an improvement over the 6 month old previous version, Edgy Eft, which itself was quite a nice system already.
My only complaint is the lack of support from outside hardware manufacturers to provide drivers. Ubuntu is taking up the job of writing drivers themselves and they did a great job in the last 6 months. Also there are other sites offering hardware companies free driver writing for them if they provide the hardware info to write the drivers. They will do the work for free provided the guidance to the hardware. Yet companies are reluctant?
The market is millions around the world, not a small number just because it is not huge overall market share, in addition the hardware is tied to the drivers, so unlike a software company tying to sell a title to linux users, I agree, the opensource mindset is probably limiting the appeal, but for hardware makers it makes no sense. They have a physical product to sell to these users. I guess that is why I am not a businessman, I don't see the logic in so many of the decisions.
If you guys however want to tinker with linux, I can't say enough about the latest Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn version, they did a superb job.
It seea all of my notebook hardware much better than windows XP, except for the wireless internal softswitch lan card, but it sees the regular lan card just fine. And the wireless i just did a few simple steps and got it working.
The Beryl 3D Desktop and Emerald Theme managers are amazing. I actually finally got my 64 bit notebook running in 64 bits with the cleanest desktop ever since OS2. I just have one icon to access everything the rest is my wallpaper. Very nice!!