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Yet the fate of ASUS Eee users is now uncertain with Fewt abandoning the project and slamming Ubuntu at the same time.
Fewt’s criticisms follow not long after a recent messy situation where Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth copped abuse from Debian fans due to his attempts to have Debian freeze code to suit Ubuntu’s timetable.
The core of Fewt’s complaint is that with each subsequent Ubuntu release – including version 9.10, Karmic Koala, now only days away – something changes that breaks compatibility with the ASUS Eee addons produced by Fewt and Eeebuntu colleagues.
This means Eeebuntu users suffer when ordinary Eeebuntu users opt to upgrade their systems, and, Fewt believes, mistakenly blame his Eee PC utilities.
Fewt has expressed his exasperation that bugs exist in Ubuntu which hinder Eee users and although he has published work-around code and steps these continue to be perpetuated in each release.
Much of Fewt’s ire is aimed specifically at the Intel display drivers being used and he warns his faithful followers that come Karmic Koala’s release later this month Eeebuntu users will be left with nothing but a blank screen at startup.
Fewt illustrated some display settings commands which work in Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, but not in Karmic Koala. Exasperatingly, although the command fails, it still returns a successful error code, meaning scripts which proceed based on the result of commands will be none the wiser something has gone wrong.
Fewt posted on his software catalogue site that Eee PC Utilities and Eee PC Tray have reached their end of life this month. He explained in his blog he just can’t go on.
The reason, he said, is because “Ubuntu sucks.”
“Instead of moving forward with every release, they have the uncanny ability to take Linux back in time by piling code that doesn’t work on top of more code that doesn’t work until they have turned their OS into a garbage salad.” He said.
“Maybe I should buy a copy of Windows 7,” he concludes.
