Giving up on Edgy

[R Kimber]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:29:11 +0100
Thilo Six wrote:

> You have read:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2006-April/000064.html
> 
> did you?
> 
> I think Edgy is what it was supposed to.
> To be free to make a choice includes the possibility to take the wrong
> choice.
> You have choosen to use Edgy and have been told it could be risky
> looong before that.

This may be so, but it seems to be a very unsatisfactory strategy.
Inter alia, the document says:-

"We can afford to take some risks with Dapper+1, because Dapper has
turned out so well. We have a great answer for people who need
super-solid and super-predictable results: Dapper is still fresh, will
continue to work on modern hardware for some time, and has plenty of
legs in its support cycle left to run."

Dapper doesn't work fully on my 'modern' hardware, and won't until
I have 2.6.19, or make my own kernel.  Having to do the latter rather
undermines the convenience of having a distribution like Ubuntu. And
there doesn't seem any prospect of getting up-to-date kernels, even
though Dapper is supposed to last "for some time".

When I started with Ubuntu I thought that there would be reliable (not
necessarily "super-solid") upgrades every 6 months.  Now it seems that
this is not so, and some releases may well be quite flaky, with even
basic features not working.

Although I shall probably stick with Ubuntu, I can certainly understand
the decision to move elsewhere.

- Richard.
-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/