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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system--
>| so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs' Analyst's
>| Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux
>| desktop distributions.
>|
>| This latest Ubuntu release, which became available in June, has won our
>| ardor with a tight focus on desktop usability; an extremely active,
>| helpful and organized user community; and a software installation
>| and management framework that's unsurpassed on any OS platform.
>|
>| In addition to outperforming Linux rivals as a desktop OS, we found
>| that Ubuntu is a solid choice for server deployments--provided, at
>| least, that the sort of graphical management hand-holding that one
>| would expect from Microsoft's Windows Server or from Novell's SUSE
>| Linux Enterprise Server isn't a priority.
> `----
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1990777,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
I'm not sure that this "support" for older releases is as big an issue
as it is made out to be. As new releases are available for free anyway,
with testing/unstable versions around for plenty of time such that IT
departments can test and verify new versions, even contribute fixes and
bug reports if they wish, then it's just a question of managing a
rollout of "dist-upgrade". Aside from kernel upgrades, there would not
normally be any need to even reboot a machine, so it could well be
possible to upgrade the majority of machines completely remotely.
Still, people take time to grasp the significance of changes...
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