Consensus seems to be building Hardy Heron slow as molasses

[Todd O'Bryan]

My guess is that most of us don't have extra systems to run the beta
releases on and can't afford to take the chance of having a system go
down when there are 6 or 10 or 30 schoolchildren depending on it. If I
could figure out a way to install a beta on my server and then reboot
if there's a show-stopper bug, I'd do it, but my primary job isn't
technical support--I'm a CS teacher using a self-contained lab and the
lab administration happens during the free time I can find when I'm
not planning for the six sections (three different classes, about 150
students) of classes I have to teach.

Don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy to help out by trying
pre-releases, but to make it more likely for that to happen, it has to
be easier to run them on production systems. Maybe a good investment
of time would be to create a simple way for people to create a
dual-boot system that uses the current settings so that, for example,
I could turn on the beta for a class or two to develop bug reports and
then switch back.

BTW, I haven't noticed that Hardy is slow at all on the two
stand-alone machines I've installed it on. I'm hoping to put it on my
system at school early next week. My only complaint is that Firefox 3
doesn't seem to be quite ready for prime-time, yet--the lack of some
of my favorite extensions has made me downgrade to Firefox 2 on both
machines I'm using.

Todd

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
>  Am Samstag, den 03.05.2008, 12:51 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
>
>
>  > so no, we wont go back, if theer are issues in ltsp5 lets fix them
>  > instead of going back to stoneage ;) indeed that needs testers to
>  > communicate to developers *before* a release.
>
>  just to extend that sentence, there is a planned 8.04.1 release [1], we
>  can do fixes for that if people report them in the bugtracker now ...
>
>  ciao
>         oli
>
>  [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
>
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