9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Clint Tinsley]

> --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net>
> > Subject: Re: 9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" 
> > <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 11:00 AM
> >
> > On Thursday 05 November 2009 11:50:47 Clint Tinsley wrote:
> > > It appears that Karmic Koala was rushed out the door
> > and is really giving
> > >  Ubuntu and Linux a black eye as a very flawed,
> > buggey release.  There have
> > >  been two derogative reviews with the second one
> > today on Linux Magazine
> > >  Daily titled "Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look
> > Bad" and it sad to
> > >  acknowledge that they are right.  The
> > article reports that maybe 10% of
> > >  the user population is getting a "succesful"
> > working installlation and
> > >  after my experience this morning, I wonder for
> > how longed.  I did an
> > >  inplace upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, things were
> > seriously broken.  I did a
> > >  clean install, had a few challenges, not a
> > perfect install. Then this
> > >  morning, I found that my Wine menu was "reset"
> > and one of my application
> > >  folders was missing off the hard drive, this
> > after a update that sort of
> > >  worked, I think.  And like many have
> > experienced, 9.10 is very slow to
> > >  boot.  Waiting for the real release of
> > 9.10... or atleast a remix.  I
> > >  cannot recommend 9.10 to my user
> > community.  9.04 was great, it worked,
> > >  Gloria Mint 7 put on the polish.
> > > > Sorry, please no flames.
> > > > Clint
> > > Totally opposite of my experience. I upgraded to the 9.10
> > beta a few weeks ago from 9.04 and have had no problems with it.
> >
> I too have had less issues with karmic beta than many other earlier 
> releases.  My .02.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

I asked, please, no flames.  9.04 worked great and I have been using Gloria Mint 7 for several months now.  Even Thunderbird is flaky in 9.10.  Ubuntu is suppose to be for everyone, not just techies and early adopters who are willing to deal with all the problems.  And most of all, it is suppose to be stable, which it is not.

Clint