9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Arthur Johnson]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> 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.

I haven't had a single issue with 9.10.  My laptop upgraded without
problems, and I have a fresh install on my desktop (new build)

I've been pretty happy.