9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Mike McGinn]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 12:38:03 Tony Arnold wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Mike McGinn wrote:
> > 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 agree. I've upgraded two machines and installed from fresh on another
> all without any problems. Is this a case of only bad news ever being
> reported?
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
> 
Hi Tony,
It does appear that only bad news is reported, but most folks only email these 
groups when they are having problems. I bet Technical Support people do not 
get many calls reporting everything is OK.

Regards,
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Mike McGinn
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