Ubuntu: So Much for "Enterprise"

august 22, 2006 : steve kong : 3 comment(s)

If Canonical is trying to court the enterprise customers, then it can't let something like this happen. There was a xorg release yesterday and it apparently was not tested. The result? Broken X all over the place. This does not bode well for Canonical who targetted this LTS ("Long Term Support") release at gaining some traction in corporations. And it certainly is a major screw up for them because they are known to be very newbie friendly, and this little update will completely hose the GUI for any 6.06 LTS system. At least with Red Hat (and CentOS), I can trust that any update that comes out will have undergone QA testing. I now have some serious doubts about Ubuntu -- even these "enterprise" aimed LTS releases. Earlier, I had thought that Canonical would put some extra QA/testing behind these LTS releases. Now, I know they don't and that's not very comforting. I wonder how happy a corporation would feel if one morning, all their systems updated to the latest xorg package available from Ubuntu servers and wham! all the GUIs die. The only way to fix this is some command-line work-around provided in the link above. It is probably even worse for the home user who thought that they could get away from Microsoft by using the "user-friendly" Ubuntu. Microsoft stuff may crash a lot, but never has Microsoft release something that took down the entire GUI. I am sure there are some home users that, after this, will have sworn off Linux completely. And that is a shame.

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In those years haging out with Linux i've learned to wait the 2nd day after the release of an update to actually do it. Maybe i am wrong, but doing so i never found a problem :-)

kOoLiNuS

August 24, 2006 @ 03:32 PM

heyas all. my 40 gig drive is going to good use now. I have installed UBUNTU and have ordered KUBUNTU. I dont know how to install the driver for my ati radeon 9600xt. Actually i dont know if i am meant to be downloading and installing XFREE86 or the XORG version of the driver. I am downloading them both but i dont know how to do anything in Linux really. I dont know where I am meant to set up my modem or set up a net account. (no INETWIZ.EXE) So yeah, can someone help me out with getting my ATI driver installed? and does anyone know of a good long PDF file i can read and wrap my brain around. I'm still a Windows user, but I want to use Linux as much as possible. Thanks. :)

digital camera

November 1, 2006 @ 05:36 AM

My girlfriends Windows machine broke down just some days ago after a windows update. We had to reinstall windows, fortunately we could save her important files with help of Ubuntu live cd and a portable fat32 disk.

Bear

April 9, 2007 @ 01:53 AM

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