Older Computer and 8.04

[Graham Todd]

On Sun, 09 May 2010 22:13:51 +1200
chris <chevhq at gmail.com> uttered these words:

> 10.04, like all Ubuntu new releases, is buggy and released too soon.
> Wait until July for 10.04.1, when the developers have sorted all the
> bugs, and by then it should be stable
> The problem is that the developers insist on releasing a "new" version
> every six months.
> 
> This system does not make for stable releases.
> 
> Cheers the kiwi
[snipped]

......unlike Debian, about which the greatest complaints were that it
had a horrible installer and too long a release cycle.  Along came
Ubuntu, based on Debian, which cured the installer problem (Debian has
since caught up, and has got a pretty nifty GUI installer now), but
Ubuntu never really solved the release cycle problem, and with a wider
range of architectures supported by Debian it now looks as though
Debian is worth taking a second look at.

The problem with 10.04 is mainly the bugs, but it also suffers from an
attempt at "branding" in which the window controls have been moved from
the right to the left.  This is not a bug but deliberate, however at
least one distribution based on Ubuntu has decided to bend to popular
voices (Ultimate Edition 2.6) and move the window controls and
advertise the difference, so making it a point when getting others to
try it. I'm already using UE2.6 because I am disabled user and require
the window controls to be on the left, because of my disability.

If the major bugs that remain (all OS have bugs so we can't eradicate
them entirely) have not been brought under control by July, then I for
one will be seriously looking at Debian (or one of those distributions
based on it using the Gnome desktop such as Parsix).......or stay with
9.10, except that isn't an LTS release.....

-- 
Graham Todd