9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Fred Roller]

Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:50:47AM -0700, Clint Tinsley wrote:
>   
>> community.  9.04 was great, it worked, Gloria Mint 7 put on the polish.
>>     
>
> YMMV, 9.04 sucked out loud for me. But kinda the point of a 6 month release
> cycle is to always have new->better->different. The safe choice is LTS that is
> more conservative and you don't have to worry about what side of "bleeding
> edge" you wind up on, the painful or the cute. 
>
>   
+1

Why are new users being encouraged to use the latest and greatest 
release.  LTS is where I point new users unless they are up for working 
with the the development.  Karmic is making a bunch of changes which 
seem fundamental and will inherently have bugs which need to be worked 
out.  Heck, even a LTS will have some issues depending on user and 
hardware.  What I don't agree with is having the 6 month release more 
prominent on the download page than the LTS; or at least having LTS a 
bit more obvious for new users.

We should also consider moving this discussion to Sounder.

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Fred
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"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."