9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Avi Greenbury]

Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> As soon as F12 is released, I'll install it on her laptop.

You don't think the "As soon as X is released I'll install it" approach
is what's making these things appear broken? I can't think of anything
that I'd consider ready to rely on at its date of release, except maybe
Debian Stable and distros subscribing to that model. But that's not
really a day of release, it's just a particular fork of a
rolling-update distro.

IMO, there's not a lot particularly appealing about 9.10 over the
perfectly-functioning-and-still-quite-supported 9.04 right now,
certainly not to people of a less technical bent[0], and so that's what
I'd install.

I've said in an earlier post to a different thread that I think
Ubuntu's got a peculiarly large group of pre-release testers who don't
do a lot of reporting, this means that many bugs make it into the
release version.


Though I must concede there are technical people who don't like
repeatedly fixing things, since I appear to have become one.

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