[ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

[Rob Beard]

Bruce Beardall wrote:
> I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I 
> can't really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory
> glance at KDE 4 but I think this leads to an interesting question:
> 
> If we're to advocate Linux [and as far as this list is concerned, 
> Ubuntu] should we be concentrating our advocacy on the LTS release?
> It's all too easy for anyone on this list to get carried away with
> the latest and greatest but the vast majority of those we're trying
> to introduce Linux to are used to the years between each Windows
> release. Should we be concentrating on introducing them to a release
> which is intended to be around for a number of years and expected to
> have a certain level of stability and accessibility?
> 
> It would have been interesting to hear other people's views.
> 

I agree with this, I'd be much more confident giving out an 8.04.1 disc
than 8.10 going on what experience I've had of Intrepid so far.  Don't
get me wrong, I'm planning on upgrading my main Desktop to Intrepid in 
the next few days (just not had much time) and I do like what I've seen 
but I have also found some compatibility issues with hardware. 
Something which is putting me off is the lack of 3D support for older 
GeForce cards (i.e. GeForce 256 and GeForce 2MX).

Rob