New operating system releases!

This is just amazing: did everybody coordinate this? Within the last three weeks or so, we’ve seen these releases come out:

• Ubunutu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (and Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, et al)
• OpenBSD 4.2
• Fedora 8
• Red Hat Enterprise 5.1
• OpenVMS 8.3-1H1
• FreeBSD 7 Beta 2
• FreeBSD 6.3 Beta 1
• OpenSUSE 10.3
• Macintosh OS X 10.5
• NetBSD 4.0 RC3
• AIX 6.1

Several of these were released on the same day, November 1.

What next? Am I really supposed to choose just one? Sigh. And I just installed OpenBSD 4.1 and Fedora 7, too – not to mention installing FreeBSD 6.2 not too long ago.

From all the talk, I’ll have to try Kubuntu again. So many systems, so little time.

I have been using OpenSUSE 10.3 (with KDE). I just love it – and I love the new menu format, too.

Update: Sigh. I should have known. Microsoft Windows Vista celebrated its 1st Anniversary on Nov. 8.