Ubuntu Misses A Trick
Ubuntu, you got us this far and then, just when it mattered, you blew it for all of us.
Unlike many, I’m not ranting about Karmic Koala’s technical glitches. For the first time ever, the mainstream tech press mentioned an upcoming Linux release in a Windows preview article. And what did Ubuntu do to capitalise on this new-found exposure? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Fiesty Fawn, which was released four months after Vista’s launch, was a missed opportunity. Despite being technically superior to the new OS with features such as a 3D desktop and a restricted drivers manager, it came too late to create inroads into the desktop market.
But Karmic Koala was different. Coming on the heels of Windows 7’s release, it was built up as something to look at before making your desktop OS choice, along with Apple’s minor update to OS X, Snow Leopard. Yet on release day, all we heard from the community were moans and groans.
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