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[News] Review of Ubuntu Shows That Even Linux Alphas Are Decent

Ubuntu 7.04 Alpha 3 - Installation

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| Final Thoughts
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|     * This whole experience has been too cool. My complements to the
|       Ubuntu team for putting 7.04 together. If this is an Alpha release
|       then I can't wait for the betas or the final release.
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http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2007/02/ubuntu-704-alpha-3-installation.html

Also from the same guy:

Why it is.

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| To me this is not a zero-sum game. I'm not looking for a single
| winner in this process. More fundamentally I'm looking for healthy
| alternatives to Microsoft Windows. I mentioned Vista earlier, and
| as pretty and stylish as it has become, it has picked up habits
| that really disturb me. I feel that Microsoft Windows has gone
| from being merely intrusive to being heavily invasive of my use
| of my computer. The prime driver is DRM. Microsoft put it in to
| help the poor studios continuously re-sell the same content over
| and over and over again. Microsoft is in the perfect position to
| apply the same technology to software updates, including the entire
| OS. Then I'm really screwed. I wind up with a machine not much 
| different than the XBox 360, in which Microsoft has complete
| control and I don't. I want to foster a dialog with other Linux
| users so that all of Linux improves over time. We need Linux (and
| other free alternatives) now more than ever. It may not turn out 
| this way, but I see a time where our computers are so locked down
| and controlled that we loose the fundamental freedom to really
| innovate. I don't want to have to go through an authority just
| to get into my machine's hardware. And I'm afraid that's where
| we'll wind up if we're not careful.
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http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-it-is.html

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