Good Idea for new users

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that the Karmac 9.10 version of Ubuntu should be
> offered with advice to use the ext3 file system and the Grub
> version 1 boot.

> I think this because a huge number of problems surround the
> new versions of both critical items. A new user does not want
> to hear this.


I think that you are being disrespectful and unfair to the Ubuntu devs
without any justification and without any history of problems. 9.10
was released one day ago; have the lists and fora been flooded with
grub2 and ext4 problems? This comment might be appropriate after a
month of repeated problems.

ext4 has been available for a while as a filesystem option/upgrade and
has been Fedora's default filesystem since June without problems.

grub2 came out of beta three days ago and it is working (it is
recognising and naming boot and root partitions properly, except for
the headache of dmraid but grub-legacy also chokes on that too).