online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Conrad Knauer]

Aarrggh...  I keep forgetting that sounder doesn't have a reply-to
field when I press reply -_-;

CK

On 6/12/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/12/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > a negative review of Dapper in tectonic.com:
> > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026
>
> Dapper also got a negative review in today's DistroWatch Weekly:
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060612#opinion
>
> ---
> Despite having been delayed by six weeks for "polish" and carrying a
> "Long Term Support" tag, the Ubuntu 6.06 release was a disappointment.
> This was probably exacerbated by the expectations the development team
> and Ubuntu user community had created prior to the release.
> Unfortunately, while the new product works perfectly well for a great
> number of Linux user, the many reports of serious issues hint at
> quality control problems and a failure to effect the promised "polish"
> in time for the release. The new graphical installer, which has now
> become the default way to install the distribution, is still immature
> and many users reported crashes while trying to install Ubuntu. The
> live CD itself is often unusable - on your DistroWatch maintainer's
> main system it takes over 20 minutes to complete its boot process!
> Further problems with printing and display on systems with ATI
> graphics cards have added to the perception that Ubuntu 6.06 is not on
> par with the project's previous three releases.
> ---
>
> Do you think there was a problem with the CD-R he used?  For me it
> boots almost as fast from the CD as from the HD...
>
> CK
>