news.softpedia.com — It was undoubtedly an awesome release, allowing many to make the switch from other operating systems and plunge into the Linux experience without any regret. But as we all know, all good things eventually come to an end, so here we are today, announcing the end of life for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on April 18th, 2009.
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whoreableMar 24, 2009
Jackoff Jackelope?
diffraMar 24, 2009
No, but Linus' intention was never to make linux a windows clone, it was to make a minix clone. After he did that, everything else was just gravy. The fact that your liveCD detects most of your drivers? Thank the hundreds of thousands of developers that have contributed patches to the kernel.
cosmicrMar 24, 2009
holy s**t. I am so stupid. I didnt realise thats what the version numbers stood for!
cquilliamMar 25, 2009
Because its a popular OS and a popular distribution of an OS. It was a a big deal when Windows 3.11 was discontinued which only happened late last year.Further to that, every time someone at apple farts, it makes it to the front page. Relax and bury it if you don't like it.
mattbdMar 25, 2009
Well, I disagree. I have used a Mac for some time and I find it a pain in the backside. I've had to compile more software from source on a Mac than I've ever had to on Linux, and for me the GUI is far less user friendly than KDE.My point is, it doesn't do you any harm the fact that it exists, and in fact it probably benefits you indirectly as OS X and Linux use a lot of the same software, and contributions by Linux developers will have made their way into OS X. A case in point is WebKit, which is of course a fork of the KHTML rendering engine used in Konqueror, so any time you use Safari you're benefiting from work done at least in part by the Linux community. Also, Xcode is essentially a frontend for GCC so the entire OS has in fact been compiled using the same tool as is used for Linux software. So if Linux were to somehow disappear, Apple would lose out because they would no longer gain the benefit of the contributions of all those Linux users and developers. Do you think if anything happened to Linux those developers and users would go out straight away and buy Macs? No, they wouldn't. There's other free OS's around that they could use instead, some of which are reasonably user friendly, such as PC-BSD and OpenSolaris. And these support much of the same software such as Gnome and KDE.And you've also completely failed to justify your comment that "Linux is awful". How is it awful? What exactly is wrong with it? If it's the GUI, then that's entirely subjective - I find the OS X GUI a lot less powerful and flexible than KDE. There's also a lot of things Linux can do other OS's can't - live CD's for example.And perhaps if you think Linux is awful you should stop posting on Digg - it runs on Debian. Or using Google, which runs on Red Hat.
keegangraysonMar 26, 2009
you're using a dell inspiron 1100 too?
darkhackerMar 27, 2009
I'll be honest. I read that in Zoidburg's voice.
bobjohnsonmilwApr 8, 2009
worse, an acer which seems to be the exception with EVERY driver and chipset for some reason. If I give my laptop credit for anything, it's the number of bug reports submitted to the ubuntu forums.