Dapper to be delayed 6 weeks...

[Stratos Laspas]

mitchthompson at satx.rr.com wrote:
> Why would you have to do that?
>
> You DO have /home on its own partition, neh?
>
>   
good point!


>>
>> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:18 +1100, James Gray wrote:
>>     
>>> From a ZDnet article:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/m8v4n
>>>
>>> The next version, called Dapper Drake, is due in April. It's the first version that will have longer-term support commitments -- three years for the desktop computer version and five years for servers, compared to 18 months for the current 5.10 'Breezy Badger version. 
>>>       
I think the longer life cycle differentiates Dapper from previous
releases. It just has to be presented right: The 18 month cycle is
revised, starting with Dapper, which justifies a longer testing period.

Looks like there are big plans in store for Dapper, so it's better to
get it right the first time, instead of having first-time-with-linux
users download fixes one day after the release of the new version. If
bugs or "enhancement" issues are already known, they should be ironed
out before the release.  You don't get a second chance for a first
impression!