Karl - grub2 and ext2/ext3/ext4

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 09:12 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 08/10/2010 08:52 AM, C de-Avillez wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:07:30 -0400
> > J<dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:03, Robert P. J. Day
> >> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>  wrote:
> >>
> >>      
> >>>   is it actually true that an LTS release will *necessarily* be more
> >>> reliable out of the box?  i just thought it meant that it would
> >>> have a longer life span.  is there a more rigourous Q/A process
> >>> for LTS releases?
> >>>        
> >> FWIW, I DO have the knowledge...
> >>
> >> Your first statement is not true... at least, not in the sense of
> >> "necessarily."  The effort is made to test the hell out of EVERY
> >> Ubuntu release and hopefully send the best thing out the door that's
> >> possible.  Sometimes this is successful, sometimes not so much, but
> >> it's always a best effort balancing act.
> >>
> >> LTS means exactly what you thought it meant.  Long Term Support.  LTS
> >> releases don't change much between point releases (e.g. the upcoming
> >> 10.04.1) and get updates for a lot longer than the regular releases.
> >> However, the QA process is the same for both.
> >>      
> > One more point to what Jeff stated: we are more conservative on which
> > new versions will make it to an LTS: say package X reached release for
> > version Y.Z a few weeks before feature freeze for an LTS. If this new
> > release changes radically the behaviour of package X (like, say,
> > Gnome 2 to Gnome 3, or KDE 3.x to KDE 4.x), we may decide to keep on
> > the (now) previous release for stability -- we would not have time to
> > fully test this new version and features.
> >
> > This is -- again for example -- what happened on 10.04 LTS: we kept
> > with Gnome 2 (even if offering Gnome 3 as an option).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > ..C..
> >    
>          I think that a choice between grub and grub2 since I have not 
> heard of grub3 :-)

GNOME, not GRUB.  GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/ GNOME is your Desktop,
GRUB is your boot.  Two different projects.  And yes, there is a GNOME 3
and I'm glad they didn't include it in the latest Ubuntu because they've
changed a lot between GNOME 2 and 3.http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero