I really am getting idle with the blog! Ages since I last reported in and as usual, lots of things have been happening.

The whole Ubuntu 10.04 argument about the positioning of the maximise, minimise, close buttons was pretty interesting. Up until that point, I always thought Mark Shuttleworth was a genuine guy, but now I am somewhat concerned about the way Ubuntu is controlled.

I can appreciate that someone has to take the lead in the development of things, but some of Mark's comments in the Ubuntu Launchpad discussion were pretty much dictatorship. Yes, he was getting some stick but his responses were not what I would have expected - and I think many Ubuntu users felt the same.

Sadly, there is still no real competition to Ubuntu when it comes down to it. I have got Vector running on a couple of older boxes and PCLinuxOS on a live disc, but Ubuntu is still my distro of choice. I wouldn't recommend it for a new Linux user though - I would always go for PCLinuxOS in that case because of the built in support for all the silly little things which most users (apart from the GNU zealots of course!) want, such as flash and support for mp3 etc out of the box.

Ah well.