If Luicd ia a LTS......

[Bruce Miller]

This $0.02 from a non-developer who tries to stay out of religious quarrels:

we all have a list of bugs which leave us dumbfounded that they have received no attention. My two favourites (all well represented on Launchpad) are:
1. strange circumstance had me installing a completely new 64-bit Kubuntu Lucid beta install the day after the beta was released; so clean that I had to create a brand-new home directory for the principal user (hint: I had suffered a recent catastrophic crash of the disk containing my (well backed-up) home directory). The 64bit KDE beta loads to a pure white screen with no trace that there is any running WM or DE. All one can do is back out to a virtual console (Ctl-Alt-[1-6]. I, for one, don't care for GNOME; thank God for LXDE. I have filed, IIRC, three distinct but related Launchpad bugs on this problem;
2. OpenOffice.org 3.2 sends certain print jobs to a /dev/null bit bucket and not to the printer. I am still trying to figure out what causes the phenomenon. It seems to involve documents which started life in another format. One weird example involves a document which started out as a .txt file. I have even had files which started life as .doc files, went through a full-scale "translation environment" (Wikipedia is your friend here) and which I subsequently reassembled in OOo. What can I do about the problem? Thank God I own a copy of Softmaker. By the way, I am a late-in-life student of translation and just received a tuition scholarship for having done well so far. I can't wait around forever to see if OOo gets fixed. I need to turn in work, and if Textmaker makes that possible, FOSS purity has to give way. Also reported on Launchpad.

Bruce

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----- Original Message ----
> From: Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com>
> To: Scott Beamer <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 3:25:48 AM
> Subject: Re: If Luicd ia a LTS......
> 
> Ok, I will bite - but why, is there some particular reasoning behind
this? We 
> have a month. We are middle of beta testing and nothing seems
to be delayed. 
> So why?

Just curious,
Peter.

2010/3/23 Scott Beamer <
> ymailto="mailto:geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com" 
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> Then I sgrongly urge a few exta betas and a delayed release 
> date.
>
> Just my $.02...
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