No more releases!

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:56:02 -0600
Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think people don't appreciate what it means to "support" a
> configuration. Since some large fraction (99.9+%?) of us are using and
> contributing to Ubuntu for "free," it doesn't come up much, but if you
> are a paying Canonical customer it matters to Canonical exactly which
> configuration you have. If you are running a particular configuration,
> the people you are paying to support you can know what you have on
> your system to a fairly high level of specificity without quite as
> much ambiguity as on a typical Windows installation.

You've touched on the main reason that I believe that Ubuntu will
eventually go away from the .deb format and launch their own .ubu format.
It would go a long way toward eliminating the mixed systems that we seem
to hear about from time to time on the ubu tech list.

Cybe R. Wizard
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