suggestions after dapper

[sunita mishra]

Best wishes Ubuntu team.
Ubuntu is great; I am using it for last one year or more.
Last January I got breezy pressed CD from a friend and installed it replacing hoary. Breezy installation went without any problem. Performance was also very good. Except, xpdf window goes below the bottom panel each time it is started and scilab was not working.
In July the same friend gave me Dapper live Cd (pressed). I tried. During installation I ran into problems:

1. Grub automatically writes to MBR. It should give choice as Breezy. I prefer GAG in a dual booting environment.
2. It does not ask for choices of making which partition to have bootable flag on (or off). 

A requirement:

3. It should ask for a proxy and if necessary, a password for the proxy. Then it should automatically configure the apt (with adding the necessary ACQUIRE line), and wgetrc both for http and ftp, putting proxy on.

After installation I ran into real problems. The network would not work. In Breezy I had no problem, but Dapper is having the network problems. It is getting an inet address from the proxy, but there are errors while receiving and sending data. The errors increase (TX and RX errors). Why does it happen with Dapper and not in Breezy? The change in Dapper is obviously unwelcome. This is very bad, because Linux is for network. If sound does not work, managable, we can troubleshoot, but no compromise on networking. It simply defeats the linux philosophy. The same problem persists in xubuntu, kubuntu.
I could not check the xpdf and scilab problems in Dapper.

A suggestion: Probably, the ubuntu team is feeling the pressure of time; six months is not a good practice. Fedora core uses six months for releasing another update. But it is not a good practice. A user (not an OS tester) may not like to change to another OS in six months time. It would be better to have one year gap. By 10 months a new release may come for testing, and then by the end of a year, a comapratively problem free version may be shipped. 
Thanks

 				
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