Upgrading to Edgy Eft

[paul cooke]

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 14:42, Chris Neary wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I have a question regarding upgrading to Edgy Eft, and that question is
> this: Why? There have been a few posts to the list asking for help with
> getting certain things (sometimes the most fundamental things) working or
> behaving, yet the 'bleeding edge' release of Ubuntu is barely a month old!
> Do you want to upgrade to Edgy right _now_, and if so, why?
>
> Dapper is brand new, so how come brand new is not good enough for some
> people?
>
> I'm not ranting, I'm just curious as to why people are upgrading
> already. Surely if they're testing Edgy, they should be reporting problems
> to ubuntu-dev. Is it just blind
> playing-with-the-system-to-see-if-it-breaks-ism?
>
> I remember weeks up to the release date of Breezy, #ubuntu had to put in
> it's topic that X was broken and not to upgrade yet - the most fundamental
> part of a graphical desktop wasn't yet finished and ready for distribution,
> but people still want to upgrade regardless.
>
> Human behaviour. Baffling!
>

no, I've got a couple of spare computers (not critical if they get borked) and 
more importantly, spare time... how else are they gonna shake down the bugs 
for you guys?

> Chris