9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Avi Greenbury]

Angus MacGyver <macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
> Fedora - package management used to suck so badly, I'd rather remove
> my eyes with a blunt pin, though last time of looking (circa FC10),
> better, but overall still not even close to a usable system IMHO.

It's better now, basically a port of apt.
up2date made me want to kill small animals.

> SuSe - The YAST tool it was the best, and worst...
> Not too bad for workstations - but servers - I hated using Yast with a
> passion - just ended up getting things twisted.. (from my perspective)

Yast was never 'not too bad' for anything.

> Ubuntu IMHO is by *far* the best all rounder for machine(s) that
> should "just work" - the least amount of effort for a perfectly
> usable desktop machine - and even internally facing servers.
> 
> If I want to go "hard core" and get a really customised machine, DMZ
> hardened, no GUI, serial console, tiny install footprint, hand built
> packages, legendary reliability I don't even bother with linux - I go
> *BSD.

There's a huge swathe of middle-ground that Ubuntu's getting
increasingly crap at, though. There are a big bunch of other distros in
there, though, so I'm not sure Ubuntu needs to be there...

> (An upgrade might also do this - but not on a different hard drive)

Just copy the partition onto a bigger disc?


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