10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/11/2010 05:20 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>    
>> I take issue though with the Ubuntu model for LTS. It makes people
>> think that a release is OK as soon as it is published when in fact it
>> is only slightly less buggy, if at all, than Ubuntu's non-LTS
>> releases. I am at the moment in a permanent fight with my clients to
>> convince them to wait for 10.04.1 before I upgrade their servers. I
>> upgraded the boxes of a new client immediately after the release
>> because I would have lost/not gained him had I kept on saying "wait"
>> but it was a silly risk. Thankfully, they are running OK, probably
>> because the unstable stuff is generally pulled in by the desktop
>> tasksels or other desktop-related apps.
>>
>>      
> +1
>
> That LTS badge is meaningless if it just means we shall ensure security
> fixes for the next x years.
>
>    
         The base problem is promising a fancy new Ubuntu Linux every 6 
months. This almost is a certain problem for people like you with 
customers who hear about 10.04 and want it right NOW :-)

73 Karl




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