Beta 8.10 released

p.daniels teeahr1 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 21:16:35 UTC 2008


On Saturday October 4 2008 15:43:00 Knapp wrote:
> Yes, community is what *ubuntu is about and having the latest and
> greatest but the fact that the stuff works without much problem is why
> it is being taken up en mass. You drop the "it just works" and you
> will loose most of the people that are coming to Linux through Ubuntu
> from Windows. Newbie don't want to fix a system or debug it, they want
> to use one and learn it. Like it or not Ubuntu is THE newbie system
> but there are a lot of other distros just waiting for it to slip up,
> Mandriva for example would love to get back the pack. Finding bugs is
> not what *ubuntu is about. That is what alpha and beta is about!

I agree that Ubuntu (Gnome) is "the n00b Linux," but Kubuntu (KDE) isn't and 
never has been. I don't recommend it to first-timers, do you?

-p.
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