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Listed below are comments made by David Jeffrey between Tuesday, 22nd April 2008 and Wednesday, 23rd April 2008.

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Intel Classmate - the Rufus review 11:27am on 23 Apr 2008 A couple of points:

Firstly, Ubuntu and Linux in general are not 'unix-based', they are 'unix-like'. This is an important distinction.

Secondly, as a Java developer,I can tell you that Java 6 support from Sun is pathetic at best. There are plenty of bugs on all systems. Java 6 isn't even available on Mac OS X, a 'mainstream' operating system if there ever was one, although that's Apple's fault. Of course Sun aren't going to taylor Java to every single distribution of Linux; they don't need to because they're all based on the same components. It should behave in the same manner as on Debian (the distro Ubuntu is based upon) and other Linux distros. Note how another user experienced the bug on Red Hat.

Incidentally, Sun realised that Java was going to be killed by .Net/Mono and released most of its Java as Open Source last year. This recognises the simple fact that Community Support is the only way to improve the unmanageable and shoddy codebase that is Sun's Java Virtual Machine.
Intel Classmate - the Rufus review 11:41pm on 22 Apr 2008 Brilliant! What a vindication of Linux, "From the mouths of babes". I'm typing this on a release candidate of the brilliant new version of Ubuntu; I run Mac OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu and Yellow Dog Linux at home; Mac OS X is the perfect marriage of Open Source and a commercial interface, but Ubuntu is a very close second. I only boot XP to use my printer and play the odd game... When my Mac laptop dies, I'll probably switch to Ubuntu or another Linux permanently.

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