"It definitely has gotten a lot simpler," Vibber said. Mass upgrades can be done more easily, and the data center can be managed as a unit, he said. "We can run the same combination everywhere, and it does the same thing" and runs the same software, Vibber said. "Everything is a million times easier."The move has been seen in the industry as a major victory for Ubuntu Server, and other community based distributions, such as CentOS. ComputerWorld [via Slashdot]
Codenamed "Intrepid Ibex", 8.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
"We need to work harder to communicate the relative irrelevance of releases in a live distribution like Gentoo," Gentoo developer Donnie Berkholz explained to InternetNews.com. Releases "have an overly large impact on what non-Gentoo users think of the health of the distribution, so problems with a small team within Gentoo are magnified in their effect on public opinion."Having recently converted my laptop to Gentoo, I can attest that this system seems to work quite nicely. Portage, Gentoo's package management system, really does the job. Dependencies are resolved correctly at least 99% of the time and updating the entire system is a breeze. While installing large applications such as OpenOffice or Gnome might take some time (i.e. hours and hours as everything is compiled locally), things do largely work quite nicely once installed. InternetNews [via Tectonic]
