Heron's not so hardy after all
Is Ubuntu's Hardy Heron resting on its laurels? Ubuntu 8.04LTS - for Long Term Support - was widely expected to continue the platform's long, steady march towards impeccable reliability and usability. But instead of a shot on goal, it's looking more like a foul each day.
Our first impression of 8.04 was good - but we had enough trouble during the review that we couldn't recommend it for enterprise deployment. Since then, more problems have emerged. Take Six Annoyances In Hardy Heron, a blog post from a solid Ubuntu fan that details a number of places where the new distribution is notably worse than its predecessor. Some are trivial, some serious, but all are clearly mistakes. He also links to numerous other users who have their own concerns: this is part of a rising murmur of discontent from the Ubuntu heartlands that will carry on growing until the problems are acknowledged.
In fact, it's just one problem. 8.04LTS wasn't ready. Decisions had been made that weren't good decisions, mistakes had been made that weren't fixed, assumptions were assumed that weren't true. That's par for the course for any big project, and in something that relies on quite so many disparate parts as a Linux distribution, it's only surprising that there weren't more.
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