GuTSy is slow!

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 21:58 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> And I love that Ubuntu _does_ work for almost everybody, I just get
> frustrated when apps that don't work right get replaced with more
> complicated apps that STILL don't work any better.

To make it short, I agree with most of what you said in this reply
(except the "I AM stupid" part, though it was funny ;)

My experience just tells me that it rarely works to not include modules
that fill a real need just because they do not yet work perfectly.
Because they never will, and you simply need to include them at one
point to find out when they do not work in real life. Especially in
Ubuntu's situation, where the enthusiast community IS the testbed.
Canonical's 50 employees cannot stress test Ubuntu on a myriad of
systems like MS could do (but seemingly don't, either ;)

I believe Ubuntu is totally doing the right thing by including these new
things in the non-LTS releases: remember, after Dapper, Mark's call to
the developers was along the lines of "Edgy is a non-LTS, so do exciting
and radically new stuff, in order to shake out the bugs until the next
LTS".

People who want stable and mature should stick to the LTS releases, as
advised by the download site. I think the time for a final judgement on
the new stuff like NM, Compiz, etc., is when Hardy is out next year. And
if the difference between Warty, Hoary, and Breezy compared to Dapper is
any indication, it will ROCK :)