10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :-)

The fact that my clients are stupid doesn't mean that Canonical/Ubuntu
are wrong about their release schedule

Maybe they should rename 10.04.1 "stable LTS".