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This is terrible clickbait, it reminds me of that 4chan HN spoof thread. The author disregards many of his points through his article, yet only acknowledges th
by suprjami 12y ago
This is terrible clickbait, it reminds me of that 4chan HN spoof thread.
The author disregards many of his points through his article, yet only acknowledges this with a small footnote at the end of each section. Those sections should have a note at the start, or be removed altogether.
He praises Red Hat's use of upstream LT kernels, yet ignores the fact that RHEL's lifecycle is WAY longer than upstream LT, essentially negating any benefit after some time.
Perhaps his comments about Upstart and logind are valid. However I doubt Ubuntu devs are going to break their entire init daemon, and surely as long as logind works well this isn't an issue either?
Only the AppArmor point is very valid. Ubuntu has never been a good choice for a virtualization host. Red Hat, KVM, and SELinux are very closely knit and very good.
- striking 12y agoI don't think the author meant that you should never ever use Ubuntu, I think the author meant that this version of Ubuntu's guarantee of LTS is not very good. The support for all of the components between Upstart and Mir and Compiz is derived solely from Canonical & co. Further, the patching that will need to be done to the kernel is non-negligible. It's going to be a pain to hold together, and thus support may end up being worse. I think that's the point. Just trying to be charitable.
- vacri 12y agoI actually laughed out loud when right after the section "No-one else is using compiz", he has a section saying "So what if ubuntu is widely used, 'it is popular' isn't an argument". Also, the author isn't very familiar with ubuntu - because there are official backported kernels. I'm using one on my servers stuck on 12.04LTS. Those backported kernels wouldn't have been there on release day, but were definitely there by the time of a single Fedora release cycle.
- cwyers 12y agoThe primary point the author makes is that this version of Ubuntu LTS has a kernel and init system that only it is going to be supporting for most of the lifetime of the release. Bringing up RHEL's use of kernel versions no longer supported upstream isn't really relevant - RHEL has a proven track record of supporting a kernel with patches and backports single-handedly.