Is this possible?

[Knapp]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Alexander Smirnov
<alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Alexander Smirnov
>> <alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Knapp wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you buy a car and black smoke pours out you don't expect people to tell you, you
>>>> should have purchased last years version.
>>>>
>>> Have you ever heard stories about automobile maker companies - from time
>>> to time they recall brand new cars for fixing "black smoke"?
>>> In case of software, there is even no necessity to recall, patches are
>>> send over internet for every significant problem.
>>>
>>> I believe you got your kubuntu for free and your budget wasn't impacted
>>> as much as it could be in case with a car :)
>>>
>>
>> So you are saying because this is open source project that makes it's
>> cash by providing service that it does not need to work well? You are
>> saying that the rep of Kubuntu is not important? That new users should
>> expect it to fail because it is free? I think that NONE of this is
>> true.
> I do not agree with any sentence except the last one.
>
> But i think that the major points for ubuntu are LTS distros.
> And all others are just something intermediate(may be not the best
> phrase), to show community the direction where ubuntu is going to go.
>
> it's always reasonable to stick with LTS. And only in case if you want
> something non-ordinary :) you can try intermediate release.
> This is just my vision of ubuntu cycle.


I would buy this, if it were that way on their web page. Nowhere does
it say that a none LTS is a beta and we should expect it to have big
holes in it. If you go to the Ubuntu site home page it says to go to
download where you get this message:

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (the latest version): Includes the latest
enhancements and is maintained until 2010
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop: Released April 2008 and maintained until
April 2011 – ideal for large deployments

I don't know about you but I don't see myself as a large deployment
with just my 3 computers and I don't see an extra year as being such a
big deal. There are no warnings about  8.10 not working well or being
not for new users.

But this is Kubuntu so:
Kubuntu 8.10 - Featuring the cutting edge KDE 4 and maintained until
April 2010
Kubuntu 8.04 - Featuring the mature KDE 3 and maintained until October 2009

Again no big warning about non-LTS updates. There is on the home page
a little bit of a warning at the bottom mixed in with the new that has
a link to a page with a warning. Why do I feel like I am looking for
Arthur Dent's home destruction warning?

So in this one upgrade there is some warning about problems but in the
past that has not been the case and it is not the case with Ubuntu.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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