Feisty vs Dapper

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007, Rehan Afzal wrote:

> I have been usign Feisty for over a week now and I ma sick of its
> instabilities !
>    
>   Laptops hang (especially if they are shut down improperly ! ) You have
>   to reinstall the whole thing ! Yeah they are dells !
>    
>   I also have an AMD Server and I cant shut it down ( except hard power
>   off ).
>    
>   I am beign told that Dapper is more stable and all thebugs have been
>   sorted out !
>    
>   Feisty / Gusty are just Canonical's obsessions ( of launching a version
>   every  months; whether they are bugfree or not ).
>    
>   So any comments !

If you would like to ask specific detailed questions, I guess perhaps we
can try to answer them.  Up to now you have only made exclamations.

For what it's worth I've almost never seen any version of Ubuntu hang on
many different servers, desktops and laptops.  I've certainly never had to
reinstall it and I've been using it since the first version in 2004.  I
would be interested to try to understand why you have such bad experience
if you have time to give us some details.

The meaning of dapper being more "stable" is not to say that it is
noticeably less buggy, but that the release is supported for a long period,
in order that people who would like to change nothing for 4-5 years can do
so.  If you're happy to use stuff from 06/2006 you can use dapper.  Bear in
mind though that some drivers which have come out since will only be
available on the newer ubuntu versions and while bugs will be fixed, you
won't easily get the latest versions of software like firefox and
openoffice in dapper.  AMD64 support is something that has been in heavy
development in the intervening period.

Gavin