phoronix.com— Mark Shuttleworth has just announced during his keynote at Ubuntu Live 2007 that the next Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release will be Ubuntu 8.04.
Jul 22, 2007View in Crawl 4
Well help us Ubunteeros out and ask Broadcom (and specify open-source driver). The more that ask the bigger the chance to get one. They need to know the world is bigger than the WinXX world
last time I've seen windows crashing daily was back in pre-windows 98SE times, then I switched to NT and experienced very little crashes. I've been running win2k since it's been available and I can count on my fingers the number of times the system crashed in the last 4 years. I didn't downgrade to xp and will not downgrade to vista.I tried using ubuntu in its 4th version and dropped out, but from then I tried each new version, I dropped ubuntu 5 (breezy badger) then dropped ubuntu 6 (dapper drake then edgy eft) to get kubuntu 6 (edgy eft) which I'm still using today but will soon upgrade to kubuntu 7 (Feisty Fawn).have to say I experienced way more system crashes with ubuntu than I do with windows, but I'm way more accustomed to w2k and now how to tweak it while I'm still learning how to use kubuntu.I alreday learned that I could have save a couple months by dumping gnome right away for any GUI that don't prevent me from using my computer the way I intend/want/like. I'm still baffled by how GNU/linux is so behind what the freeware community added to windows feature-wise (supercopier, utorrent, foobar2000, GUI ftp client,...) while being way advanced on other features.
I'm not even talking about hardware I purchase after I already convert to Linux, I'm talking about hardware I already have and that's been out for years. How is it that Microsoft has support for 90% of all hardware right out of the box but Linux somehow can't do the same thing?It's a lot easier for an organization like Ubuntu to be taken seriously with other big organizations such as hardware manufacturers, than for one consumer to call in and bitch about not having the driver he needs for his operating system. As it stands, I have no incentive to do this for Ubuntu because Windows already has all my drivers. I tried to switch and was not able to get Ubuntu to recognize my ICH7R RAID10 volume to no avail. It was much easier for me to switch back than to call and complain. If Ubuntu wants a bigger market share, they're gonna have to step up, and I don't care what everyone else using Ubuntu says, that's just how it works. Microsoft works with other companies to get preliminary support for most hardware out of the box. No reason why Ubuntu can't do the same.
darkn00bJul 23, 2007
That ".04" is the month of the release in Year.Month format. Therefore 8.04 would be April 2008.
techcfJul 23, 2007
Well help us Ubunteeros out and ask Broadcom (and specify open-source driver). The more that ask the bigger the chance to get one. They need to know the world is bigger than the WinXX world
izzieJul 23, 2007
last time I've seen windows crashing daily was back in pre-windows 98SE times, then I switched to NT and experienced very little crashes. I've been running win2k since it's been available and I can count on my fingers the number of times the system crashed in the last 4 years. I didn't downgrade to xp and will not downgrade to vista.I tried using ubuntu in its 4th version and dropped out, but from then I tried each new version, I dropped ubuntu 5 (breezy badger) then dropped ubuntu 6 (dapper drake then edgy eft) to get kubuntu 6 (edgy eft) which I'm still using today but will soon upgrade to kubuntu 7 (Feisty Fawn).have to say I experienced way more system crashes with ubuntu than I do with windows, but I'm way more accustomed to w2k and now how to tweak it while I'm still learning how to use kubuntu.I alreday learned that I could have save a couple months by dumping gnome right away for any GUI that don't prevent me from using my computer the way I intend/want/like. I'm still baffled by how GNU/linux is so behind what the freeware community added to windows feature-wise (supercopier, utorrent, foobar2000, GUI ftp client,...) while being way advanced on other features.
mavrevmattJul 23, 2007
Didn't we already know there would be an LTS release in '08? I mean WTF does he need to announce it for?
perlhacker14Jul 23, 2007
Hopefully no one will use Ubuntu and use something better like Debian for servers and/or desktops... Even Red Hat would be a better alternative.
Closed AccountJul 23, 2007
Um... wasn't Feisty+2 always LTS? Even before Feisty? Hell, even before Edgy?
glitch82Jul 24, 2007
I'm not even talking about hardware I purchase after I already convert to Linux, I'm talking about hardware I already have and that's been out for years. How is it that Microsoft has support for 90% of all hardware right out of the box but Linux somehow can't do the same thing?It's a lot easier for an organization like Ubuntu to be taken seriously with other big organizations such as hardware manufacturers, than for one consumer to call in and bitch about not having the driver he needs for his operating system. As it stands, I have no incentive to do this for Ubuntu because Windows already has all my drivers. I tried to switch and was not able to get Ubuntu to recognize my ICH7R RAID10 volume to no avail. It was much easier for me to switch back than to call and complain. If Ubuntu wants a bigger market share, they're gonna have to step up, and I don't care what everyone else using Ubuntu says, that's just how it works. Microsoft works with other companies to get preliminary support for most hardware out of the box. No reason why Ubuntu can't do the same.