[Bug 24828] Re: IPv6 should be disabled by default

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Kristian: we all fixed that ourselves, I personally am worried for
newbies who will just not understand why e.g. google earth is unusable
on their system, and will trash ubuntu. Many of them will trash
GNU/linux "in toto", because ubuntu is nowadays advertised as the "best
and easiest to use" linux distribution by many people. Being the latter
a good thing, why shouldn't it be really so? Ubuntu is really easy to
set up and to use, and apt to newbies, the problem in my opinion is
mainly to fix bugs.

If to use ubuntu as they want, newbies must learn how to look for a
solution on the web, understand what ipv6 is and how to blacklist kernel
modules, you can't surely claim ubuntu is for newbies. Marking this bug
as a "wishlist" does not help. It is a serious breakage, not for
everybody but for many people.

In any case, discussing it here seems not to be that fruitful, if and
when I will have time, I will try to discuss it on the development
mailing list.

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IPv6 should be disabled by default
https://launchpad.net/bugs/24828