Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

[Phil in the scrub]

On 16 Nov, 20:22, Dave Hall <dave.h... at skwashd.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:05 +1100, Norm wrote:
> > You know,
>
> > This may sound a little like heresy, but is a new release every 6 months
> > sustainable? Or even necessary? Is it just me or is each new release becoming
> > just a little more buggy?
>
> > It just seems like they're coming out of a sausage factory with the casings not
> > quite tied off.  I keep going back to Hardy for a "good experience"
>
> > Perhaps an "update pack" every six months and stick with the current LTS
> > schedule for mainstream releases?
>
> I see the non LTS releases as developer snapshot builds.  There are some
> occasions where you will run them in production, like I am currently
> doing with Karmic for the virtualisation improvements.
>
> At the same time 80% of the boxes I have deployed in production
> environments (desktops and servers) run LTS releases.  Why? because I
> want it to be solid and don't want to have to upgrade every 6 months.  
>
> The only machine which is regularly running alphas/betas/rc/just
> released versions of ubuntu is my primary machine - my laptop.  It has
> only completely died once - corrupted cryptroot on a karmic alpha
> +updates. Why?  because if something is seriously busted I want to know
> about it well before the version goes gold and also I like shiny stuff.
>
> I do think that ubuntu and canonical need to review their marketing
> strategy for non LTS releases.  I think that there is too much emphasis
> on promoting them to Jo/e Average user, where most of them would be
> better off on an LTS release.  Can you imagine that chaos in the retail
> IT sector if MS released a new version of Windows every 6 (or even 12)
> months?  
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
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Dave   is that why Gawd invented virtual machines :)


My solution is  stick with what works   be it any flavour of an os
but play in VM land  with all the other stuff.
Learning curve heaven :(
Frustrating as heck   as some of the VM stuff   does not like  the new
stuff .
You should see  how twisted up we are  with win 7   AND  koala 9.10 64
bit this end .

But  a *lot*  better than the old paper tape and 80 col punched card
days  eh  :)