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04-24-2008, 03:48 PM
|  | He punched out all my blood! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Winston-Salem
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 : 42 nd | | | Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition Released
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS raises the bar on the Linux desktop experience. It includes the latest, stable version of many core products, and in that spirit is the first distribution to bring Mozilla Firefox 3 (Beta 5) to millions of users. The combination of Linux and Firefox make Ubuntu 8.04 LTS a superb web desktop, with fast browsing and greatly reduced exposure to viruses, web forgery and spyware. Enhanced photo experience: The enhanced default photo manager, F-Spot, together with improved camera and phone recognition means users can upload, tag, manage, display, delete, print and share photos with friends and family more easily.
Music sharing and download: Users can plug in a PSP, share playlists with friends, buy from the Magnatune online music store, stream live radio and plug in more devices than ever (with UpnP).
Better video: The new default movie player now allows users to browse YouTube and other video sources across the web and to share their videos with others. It integrates with Myth TV, the open source TVR, so users can watch their favourite TV shows straight on the desktop. Brasero allows them to easily burn all content to CD or DVD.
Productivity enhancements: Clock and calendar integration is available to manage time across the globe with a single click to set, attend and receive alerts about appointments.
Slick desktop: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS combines the latest GNOME applications with desktop visual effects, giving users a smoother, better-looking and more intuitive experience.
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04-24-2008, 04:09 PM
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04-24-2008, 05:19 PM
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04-24-2008, 05:38 PM
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04-24-2008, 05:50 PM
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| | | Linux is as easy to use as taking a poop. The problem is sifting through the crap and finding what works
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04-24-2008, 06:14 PM
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04-24-2008, 11:19 PM
|  | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | Yawn at Ubuntu. Junk.
Ubuntu basically takes everything that Linux was good at/for and throws it out the Window. It's Linux for noobs. If you want to be bored in an instant, definitely check out Ubuntu. Last time I installed it, as soon as it finished and I was at the desktop, I just sat there thinking "Um, OK, now what?" I couldn't find anything more to do with the install. It was a typical, bland Gnome environment. There's not enough software to really install or do anything with. Anything I need to do I just ended up rebooting to Windows for. More than half the fun with Linux is the terminal. Setting stuff up by hand, compiling and optimizing stuff, configuring the kernel, seeing what you can break or get out of the system, etc. are basically all the fun of Linux. Once you get rid of that and just have everything installed and set up for you, there's nothing else to do.
I like cake.
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04-25-2008, 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Dopefish 
Ubuntu basically takes everything that Linux was good at/for and throws it out the Window. It's Linux for noobs. If you want to be bored in an instant, definitely check out Ubuntu. Last time I installed it, as soon as it finished and I was at the desktop, I just sat there thinking "Um, OK, now what?" I couldn't find anything more to do with the install. It was a typical, bland Gnome environment. There's not enough software to really install or do anything with. Anything I need to do I just ended up rebooting to Windows for. More than half the fun with Linux is the terminal. Setting stuff up by hand, compiling and optimizing stuff, configuring the kernel, seeing what you can break or get out of the system, etc. are basically all the fun of Linux. Once you get rid of that and just have everything installed and set up for you, there's nothing else to do.
I like cake.
| That's kinda the point of Ubuntu, its Linux for noobs/lazy people.
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04-25-2008, 02:54 AM
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| | | Yeah, but it entirely defeats the purpose of Linux.
This is like turning your car into a kitchen table. All the fun would be in the work of chopping it up and turning it into a table, but once it's a table, there's nothing you can do with it.
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04-25-2008, 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Dopefish
This is like turning your car into a kitchen table. All the fun would be in the work of chopping it up and turning it into a table, but once it's a table, there's nothing you can do with it.
| Right, but that kind of Linux is not going to win over any sort of majority of mainstream users. The easiest way to scare away people is to make it require a high-level of knowledge (or at least the repetition of knowing all the commands). I'm all for that kind of Linux, but some average person with limited knowledge of a Unix/Linux structure will be totally baffled by it.
That's why there will always be the more expert-oriented Linux distros. Personally I think that Ubuntu is good for Linux as a mainstream OS.
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