Beta 8.10 released

[Knapp]

>> So no, not every version of every desktop environment/window manager is
>> totally usable.  We help to make them better.
>
>    All of these are laudable, to be sure.  But this misses the point of
> Ubuntu.  This is an end-user oriented distribution.  As such it is incumbent
> on Ubuntu (oh how I wish base Ubuntu would be called GUnuntu and be done with
> it) developers to ensure that the end product is usable, totally.  People who
> come to this distribution, by and large, are not the same people who want to
> "give feedback to make future developments better".  They want things to work.

Hole in one, nail on the head, this is *Ubuntu. I use it because I
don't want Gentoo style hacking. I don't want to hack my OS. I want to
hack my game program that I am writing. *ubuntu stands for "Just
works", I think that is why they have become so big. I stated linux to
escape the blue screen of death. I started Ubuntu to escape system
hacking but have the latest and greatest software.

I wonder why the really did this. Maybe to stay in step and pace with
the other big names Linuxes that are using 4? They don't want to look
like they are behind the times? I would think that they would look at
all the flack that KDE got for releasing to soon and learn a thing or
two.

This move is sort of like a writer of a long running and successful TV
show changing the hero for new one mid-season. If 8.10, "Just Works",
as well as and as fast as 8.04 then you can forget anything I said
about the devs being boneheads and I tip my hat to them for pulling it
off.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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