Ubuntu Release
[Ubuntu]
It was nice to see that the new version of Ubuntu is now officially out. I have been running the beta for serveral months now and have been very impressed with the improvements. Here is just a quick glance of what has stood out to me:
- Overall seems more polished, refined, finished…
- Boots way faster than 5.10 did on both of my systems
- GNOME starts much faster as well
- Deskbar + Beagle rocks!!!
- Availability of all the packages you need easily installed with apt-get (free and non-free)
- Painless Xgl install if you want it (I have it installed on my desktop machine…it’s addictive)
- Wireless worked in 5.10…works even better in 6.06 (at least for me)
- New icon theme (though I am sure some people will complain…I like it)
[Ubuntu + VMware]
Not only can you now apt-get install sun-java5, you can now apt-get install vmplayer (with kernel modules for Ubuntu kernels!). After hearing this I uninstalled my current vmplayer install and did an apt-get install from Ubuntu’s repositories…pretty slick.
[Windows Still Sucks]
I saw this article today about Windows gaining a security feature that has been available in Linux and *BSD for a while now. So again I say to all the Windows fanboys…still playing a little catchup are we? This wouldn’t be nearly as funny if it weren’t for Microsoft telling us in every advertisement they put out that “Windows is more Secure“. This article talks about Windows implementing ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) but they are also *attempting* to implement a true multi-user system which ask users other than the administrator to authorize certian events, like making configuration changes…sound familiar?
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