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Sunday, October 29th, 2006

UBL 2.0: My Quick/Dirty Review

So I tried out UBL 2.0 over the weened - dropped it into VMWare Server - and played around with it. It wasn’t very “new” b/c if you’ve used RHEL 4… it’s the same thing. There are some new logos and that’s about it (except I found 1 Red Hat reference still untouched - hint: it’s in the install). The only other “news” to report is that they messed up the Gnome menu for users - the “start button” doesn’t work. I think eWeek or someone already pointed this out - oops… guess that also shows the bits can be slightly different. Is it just the menu bits … or are there others?

Anyway, b/c of the menu problem I’d call this UBL b2 rather than 2.0. It’s definitely not beta1 but there’s some polish to take care of. Everything else in the distribution is exactly as it would be on RHEL. No surprises there.
Oh… oddly my grub menu was not pink. Not sure how eWeek had that happen without doing it on purpose???