10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/11/2010 06:59 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:30 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 19:20:03 +0800
>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>   wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> That LTS badge is meaningless if it just means we shall ensure
>>> security fixes for the next x years.
>>>
>>>        
>> It isn't meaningless.  It just has a meaning that people don't expect
>> and /doesn't/ have the meaning they /do/ expect.  Nowhere does it claim
>> to be bugless or stable.
>>
>>      
>
> Come right up! We be walking in the paths of the proven and glorious and
> successful Microsoft! This be Linux for the masses just like Windows is
> for the masses!
>
> Given that most stability problems today with Windows XP (not touched
> Vista or 7 yet) are down to incompatibility between third-party software
> (possibly mucking around with libraries being stuffed into the wrong
> places) or exposing it to infection, that makes Windows XP look way
> better than Ubuntu. Vista was just a case of Fedora 9 fever with the
> higher-ups out with a big brother hand. It would appear that they
> quickly took their medicine and Windows 7 probably does not have some of
> the nonsense that came with the initial release of Vista.
>
> So except for over zealous madness like scanning all media files before
> they are copied, Windows Vista don't mess up your system due to alpha
> ware. If they have clue enough not to release non-working or
> half-working stuff, why can't any distribution of Linux have that as a
> baseline standard? And I thought that this sort of thing was rather
> specific to the Kubuntu team but I guess it's the whole Ubuntu developer
> community.
>
> If you cannot be bothered to ensure that it is free of bugs causing
> major problems be it data loss or usability, then I am not interested.
> We don't claim bugless or stability. You call that an excuse?
>
>    
         Yes 10.04 is lacking many features you expect from a much 
updated Ubuntu version. It should be a LOT better than it is now.

73 Karl


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