The problem ubuntu/canonical needs to address

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 6/4/2011 1:53 AM, arif tuhin wrote:
> I was talking about a seamless upgrade process which dabian has. Most of
> the times you cant upgrade ubuntu without breaking something along the
> way. I always had issues. Yes those issues can be solved. Most of the
> issues solve themselves in next update/patches. But this is ok when i'm
> using it at home, not ok for a production environment. The reason behind
> this breaking random stuff is related to the too much tweaking of the
> basic stack. Where as distros like debian/centos plays conservative,
> ubuntu plays more like fedora. But the design choices of fedora are
> fundamentally different from ubuntu (Freedom,*First* Vs Linux for *human
> beings *:)). To achieve a business adoption i guess ubuntu should follow
> a more conservative path in turms of adoption of new technology.

Using non-LTS Ubuntu release and then complaining about breakage on it
from upgrade to upgrade is like standing on the train tracks and
watching the bullet train come at you head on.  Don't forget to wave to
it right before it smacks you.

TL; DR: Use LTS, it's there for a reason. "LTS" == "Debian style stable"

Your entire argument is invalidated by this: LTS.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
Furthermore, we define the LTS to be:
  * Enterprise Focused: ...moderately risk averse.
  * More Tested: ...shorten development ... more testing and bug fixing.