Karmic 9.10 new kernel BAD!

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>    
>> If there is anything worth contributing, it may be my opinion that
>> there should updates/upgrades to 'broken' packages in Hardy (what's
>> the point of a LTS again?) such as pidgin not talking to Yahoo or
>> Open Office not opening docx files.
>>      
These are the words of C. C. C. Christopher,  Not mine.
> The LTS bit refers to support, and has no necessary bearing on
> stability.
>
> I'd expect an LTS to be three years of stability (in the
> unchanging sense of the word), and would expect people who want new
> features and changing software to upgrade to the new distros. Surely
> the point of releasing non-LTS is to keep the people who like frequent
> upgrades and featureset changes happy?
>
> I wouldn't expect an LTS to keep version parity with newer,
> shorter-term releases, because then it *is* those releases and is no
> longer an LTS.
>
>
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