Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Ubuntu overlord Mark Shuttleworth has named the next version of the Linux distro "Zesty Zapus". Each version of Ubuntu has a two-word name, both starting with the same letter of the alphabet. The second word is always an animal and the first is an adjective. This policy has given use names like "Oneiric Ocelot" and "Edgy Eft …
Happy Z-day, Ubuntu! This day seemed SO far in the future...
I came in at Dapper Drake 6.06 (yes, .06 -- release was delayed).
Holy crap, how time flies. A decade with the penguin and it seems like only yesterday.
Thanks for MY ten Years of Linux on the Desktop.
...Cirdan...
P.S. I'm now hanging out with Ubuntu's fraternal twin, Linux Mint. Hope that doesn't make it too weird for Ubuntu...
Because of careless speed-reading, I spent a long time thinking that 6.10 was called 'Edgy Elf'. I conflated this with the 'Parsing ELF' start up message of Debian and had some very strange mental images for a while.
By their usual release schedule pattern, this will be followed by 17.10 and then the 18.04 LTS in early 2018. I always wait for the LTS then give it six months to settle down.
We did the following because of Microsoft Policy of slipping telemetry/spyware into their security patches, as well as patches that don't install unless you do each one on its own (the RDC patches).
We have just spent a full week cutting and pasting the Microsoft Knowledge base, so we have a quick summary list of what each patch does (since SP1), but also documenting the patches which fail to install when grouped, in a simple (but pretty big) text file list structure.
The patches you need to get Windows 7 Update working 'out of the box', the patches you need to get Windows 7 Update working again, after installing the cumulative April 2016 'convenience' roll-up patch (which of course, breaks Win7 updates again).
Hours of tedious boredom, via VMWare (with multiple rollbacks), just to get a fresh Windows 7 image to have no failed updates-showing 100% 'history of updates' success - but also, to get a fully upto date Windows 7 with specific updates - with no back ported Win10 Telemetry, no Win10 (previous) Nag or removal patches, or equivalent patches.
Done, so we never, I repeat never, have to reference multiple links to get to the description of an update, again, because it was wasting so much time.
In the same breath, we installed a VMWare of Linux Mint xfce in 8 minutes flat, including setting username password, and fully updating it. Nothing failed, everything installed without a hitch.
Can someone explain why anyone is still using Windows? Because I'm failing to see the sense in continuing with Windows. Windows 10 anniversary update is in relative 'calm' at the moment, after months of upheaval, in terms of failed updates, but the Start Menu (constantly changing) just looks and feels like Malware.
Windows Update really is legacy (patches on patches) clunky, shitty, garbage. With clenched teeth - 'Clunky' did work though, but boy, its not easy to achieve (100% success on Windows 7 Update History).
Quite simply FUD.
Some people I speak to about Linux are just afraid of change or they think Linux is still 'in development' and 'not ready' for large corporations. Or they know a Windows/Mac users who 'warned' them against using Linux.
There was just something hideously bad found in the Linux kernels - all of them. Patch if you can. C...lumsy Cow or some such.
Of course there also was something hideously bad found in the code that bloody Windows uses to display bloody letters on the bloody screen. Good luck using Windows without that. Well, I suppose you can install the latest Windows Server with no user interface - since the alternative is the user interface of Windows 8 to 10, it is a cracking good idea to not have one at all.
I have heard it stated* that the most persuasive reason why business doesn't change its PCs and laptops from Windows to Ubuntu is its asinine alliterative naming convention.
"Which IT Director would wish to tell the Managing Director of their multinational company that they are moving their desktops to software known as Feisty Ferret, Pregnant Penguin or Wizened Wombat?
When Mr. Shuttleworth grows out of stupidly amateur and childish names for 'his' software releases, then maybe there's a chance that it will (after decades of anticipation!) be the Year of Linux on the Desktop..."
* so no reason to vote me down!
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