Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

[shirish]

I feel your pain,  a colleague of mine who was an administrator in my
erst-while company. We had 100 desktops and we had close to 100 odd
developer desktops switched to ubuntu. We had also made an apt-mirror
to get updates but most of the time the updates were not used.

Reason :- The admin had to spend too much time to see as and when
things broke so he was static.

Applications used :-  4-5 applications were used mostly

a. Eclipse
b. Openoffice.org
c. Web-browsers (mostly Firefox)
d. PHP
e. Skype

Hardware used :-  Mostly Intel-based machine (C2D or whatever cheap we
could find) , 1 GiB RAM on some machines, smattering of AMD based
mobos, IDE HDD's and run of the mill monitors)

Even on the few machines we did some updates, many a times it would
break something or the other. The good point is that most of the times
the worksaround was there on the forums but that takes time.

Eventually we came to having a very static environment. Also the admin
was never interested to file bugs in ubuntu simply because too much
work (and language issues)

I dunno if anything given in the post is helpful to the developers or
not, or would be just 'noise' but felt like sharing hence did it.
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          Shirish Agarwal
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