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

[gav]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +0000, 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?


As the last couple of releases have had a bumpy start I've been putting LTS
versions, currently 8.04.1 Ubuntu on new installs for people recently.

I think I'll stick with the 8.04.1 Ubuntu disc for a while yet.

This does ask the question of why the latest releases have had a bumpy start,
is the new features cut off coming too late?  is it not being tested on a wide
enough variety of hardware?  Or is it something else?

Everything seems to be patched quite quickly and a .1 release seems to follow
shortly that solves most of the release day problems.

Should we be advising people to wait a week, or even a month before upgrading
to a new version of Ubuntu?

-- 
Gav Ford
revford at blueyonder.co.uk 
http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk 
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