Is Ubuntu Really Breezy?!
November 21st, 2005 • Linux
I don’t know what got into me, but Debian’s apt-get really does something to me, so as soon as Breezy was released I decided to give Ubuntu a second chance.
Boy was I wrong…
In all honesty, I simply don’t get it. I tried and tried to fix whatever’s wrong with its Gnome defaults to no avail. It’s too damn slow! Yes, really. I’ve heard about a Firefox issue eating up all the CPU on Breezy and that it should be fixed with a simple install of the latest binary from Mozilla.org, but it’s not just the browser, everything in the system feels sluggish as hell.
I thought maybe I did something wrong, maybe I installed a package I shouldn’t have, maybe I unleashed the wrath of “humanity”, I’m really not sure, so I reinstalled. Then, I reinstalled again. One more time, reinstalled. I still kept coming back to the same issues over and over again. Even Hoary wasn’t this slow.
I even downloaded and installed OpenSuSE (I’m sorry about the caps, I’m still not sure hOw tO sPEll SuSe :), Slackware with Dropline, did a Stage3 Gentoo installation, even FreeBSD delivered great performance. I’m astonished. How could a distribution this cool release a version this crappy?!
They say Droopy Drapper is going to be the be-all-end-all distribution, and I have to give Ubuntu guys their credit, they’ve done some really hard work until now, after which I can’t explain this sudden decline in quality. They’ve already released their first nightly of Dapper. Now guys, why on earth would you be working on a newer release when you still haven’t fixed the old one?
Remember how Ubuntu used to toot their own horn about a periodic 6-month release? Come to think about it now, I believe it’s a bad idea. Maybe Ubuntu devs felt some pressure to release and they just had to go for it. Well, I’d be much happier if you do a 6-year release period but do it right, I mean really right.
I’m not sure what to think right now about Ubuntu. They’ve impressed me once, but they can’t seem to do it again.
Wish you best of luck Ubuntu team. Hopefully, you won’t need it.