Το Ubuntu 10.04 LTS είναι(;) το καλύτερο λειτουργικό σύστημα

Six months ago I declared Ubuntu 9.10 to be the best version of Linux I had ever used on a desktop computer. In fact, I went on to call it “almost perfect“.

But, and I hate to say this about any release of any Linux distribution — Ubuntu 9.10, no matter how good it was, really didn’t matter all that much. Why, you ask? Because Ubuntu 9.10 was not a “Long Term Support” release.

How it works is this:

Every six months a new version of Ubuntu is released. That given release, 9.10 for example, is only supported for 18 months. A year and a half of fixes for security vulnerabilities (among other things) is simply not long enough for most people to consider viable.

But every two years (give or take) we get a Long Term Support release of Ubuntu. Those versions are supported and updated for a full 3 years. Thus making it a possibility for businesses and the non-geek home users to consider installing on their desktops and laptops.

Ubuntu 10.04 is our first Long Term Support release since early 2008… and it feels long overdue. And that is because desktop Linux has come a long, long way in the last two years.

Just to give you one great example: Those amazing 3D desktop effects we all know and love? Those were not a part of Ubuntu 2 years ago. That’s right. Out of the box, Ubuntu in early 2008 was horrifyingly 2-Dimensional!

So Ubuntu 10.04 is important. This is a release we are going to be “stuck” with (for many) for the next two years and is the release that many companies will measure up against Windows and MacOS X.

But how does it stack up?

The short answer: This is the best operating system currently available.

And here’s why.

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Παίρνοντας υπόψη τη σχέση τιμής/απόδοση, όντως έτσι είναι. Είναι το καλύτερο λειτουργικό σύστημα στον πλανήτη. Σε κάποια σημεία υστερεί ΑΡΚΕΤΑ από το Mac OS X ανεξάρτητα με το τι λέει το παραπάνω άρθρο και δεν είναι του παρόντος να ξεφτιλίσω σημείο προς σημείο τις μπαρούφες που λέει.

Σημασία βέβαια δεν έχει τι θα πω εγώ ή κάποιος άλλως. Απλά κάντε κλικ δεξιά στο weblog μου και κατεβάστε το Ubuntu 10.04 και εγκαταστήστε το. ΔΕΝ θα το μετανιώσετε. ΤΑ ΣΠΑΕΙ!