Mark Rogers wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I wouldn't grow too much grey hair over it..rumour has it that Ubuntu are working very hard to make sure the upgrade between LTS releases is as uneventful as possible.
Makes me wonder whether they'll hit 8.04 or whether it'll slip to 8.06 or similar. There must be *much* more work involved in testing the migration from 6.06, not least because most live systems running 6.06 are doing so for stability and are unlikely to join beta programmes.
It may be that they're not trying too hard to make many changes against 7.10, but that just means 8.04 would be out of date before it started and even harder to migrate to the next LTS release (10.04?).
The question i would raise is "how much" testing do they do - i'd say not enough. They seem to put themselves under a lot of pressure to provide a new version every 6 months - why not just each year and thoroughly test. From what i have understood the upgrade is for security only. But then as i've noticed with 6.04 Firefox wasn't upgraded.
a] i first tried edgy 6.10. There did seem to be quite a few problems the glitch that came to mind was that it found two floppy disks on my machine when there was only one [tried it on another PC and got the same result.
b] 6.04 seemed better and not problem a]. However it's update seemed to get a bit mixed up and that made me wonder! Reinstalling resulted in the same.
c] 7.04 i found worked fine... but i have been on the ubuntu forum and there seemed many problems.
d] 7.10 major updating problems with synaptic from what i've read. A patch for this is posted in a number of places.
e] none of these versions have liked my ps2 keyboard - a medium priced standard which works fine with windows [checked with another couple of spares i have... just liked them as they have a USB port on the side a feature that few seem to have].
points a], b], d] and e] are reasonably serious basic flaws IMHO. I have experimented with ubuntu before i use it as my main operating system and i'm not converted! It hasn't given me the confidence i'd expect. I'm looking at another distro at present that seems to do a new version each year which i'd say is about right. As for the excellent ubuntu forum... yes it is very good but it has needed to be to cope with the number of queries and problems.
james