Forget Hardy

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>    I can get zero help from all you experts so I have decided what I do
> will suit me and not you. I am going to forget Hardy and stay with this
> old 7-10 until the next new version comes out. I have it well backed up
> and when there is no longer support for this version I will not need any.
>
> Karl
>

Honestly, the most thing I complain about Ubuntu is it's lack of
colors other than brown, other than that is that

a.) EVERYTHING is tied up with Launchpad just like .Mac in OSX. It's
uninterchangeable, unconfigurable or closed model. There are web
services out there that most people are comfortable with, like
reporting bugs in Google Code, Ohloh or maybe a website of an
independent developer who get reports through his blog. The problem in
general is there are no standard way of synchronizing every work on
each websites that offer the same services. But I just hoped that they
have used a more open way of doing things like using RSS to migrate
and synchronize informations like translations, using .torrent for
updates so there would be more sources to get them not only across the
internet, but also the local networks in schools and universities that
have limited bandwidths would benefit from it. I'm saying is that
centralized information sources today is not as scalable as it would
be in the future, there would be so much demand something just cannot
hold them.

b.) Linux in general have no universal package management system. If
your using Debian you'll be using apt, but the default is you can't
install RPM packages safely without any problems. This limitation is
really pushing away software companies from creating software for
Linux, because they cannot clearly asses their market, there are
multiple distributions, and multiple formats of package management.
There are no single software package for Linux that is specifically
designed to work in Linux in general. The reality is the user would
have to get the  specific software versions for their distribution.
This is not good either, we should easily share those software as easy
as a media file.