I've never needed to reboot my system or kill a process because of the Unity desktop. It hasn't once – not ONCE – crashed on me. But Ubuntu 15.04, with Unity 7.3, has been stable as heck for me. Past versions of Ubuntu-powered Unity have been… let's just say "a bit buggy and crashy." Not horribly, mind you, but the first few years of the Unity era hasn't exactly been smooth sailing. With that, seemingly random, inflammatory bombshell out of the way, let's talk about what Ubuntu 15.04 gets right. The short version: It's an amazing release that the Ubuntu team should be astoundingly proud of. Even during times when I ran other Linux-based systems (openSUSE, Arch, Android, etc.) I still maintained a soft spot for this little orange and purple system. While I haven't been as big of a fan of the Unity interface, my praise of and advocacy for Ubuntu over the years has approached fanboy levels. Now, after over a month of living in Ubuntu (full-time), I think I finally am prepared to talk about my feelings for this release.īefore I dive in, I'd like to point out that I've been – quite possibly – one of the most ardent supporters and advocates for Ubuntu over the last… jeez… nearly a decade. I've wanted to write a review of this latest version of Ubuntu (specifically the Desktop version) but I just haven't been able to figure out…how. Well, until about two hours ago, to be exact. I have been running this release from the very day it was made available… up until right now. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.On April 23rd, just a hair over a month ago, Canonical and the Ubuntu team released Ubuntu 15.04, code named " Vivid Vervet." Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life. You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. When you do well, it spreads out it is for the whole of humanity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human.
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