Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 89.8.180.108]
on October 16, 2008 06:00 PM
I do agree that any OS or Distro have issues. Further than that I wish I could agree, but I don't. To date there are about 20 % more reported bugs for 8.04 LTS than for Edgy, Gutsy and Feisty combined. Shuttleworth has stated that they are putting together a quality assurance team and if they have/do it's great - they really need it. having said that - The increased number of Ubuntu users is ONE reason for the increase in number of bugs reported.
When their presumed QA team is through with implementing their revised policy and the implementation is reflected by the quality of their releases I'll revisit Ubuntu.
I ceased using Ubuntu 2-3 weeks after the arrival ov 8.04.1 but that update really did not solve any of my issues - some of them causing frustration amongst senior developers as well by the look of some threads in Launchpad.
Any form of production/development process needs consolidation periods. If Ubuntu believes that by some miracle this does not apply to them it explains a lot.
Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse/OpenSuse both suffered setbacks that triggered consolidation. The benefits are materialising. Gentoo and Fedora still suffers and their return depends on how well their organisations are handling consolidation. I'm optimistic as far as Fedora concerned - but Gentoo - sadly - sinks.
Ubuntu deserves tons of credit for forcing the other distros to improve their installationprocedures and so on. They are important in terms of huge publicity for GNU/Linux. My concern is that unless they actually DO their QA / consolidation they may turn into less of an asset and more of a liability. Hype can be fantastic, but eventually it ends like everything else.
Meanwhile I will continue to recommend Mandriva One 2009 KDE 4.x to people new to Linux or with "basic" needs.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 89.8.180.108] on October 16, 2008 06:00 PMWhen their presumed QA team is through with implementing their revised policy and the implementation is reflected by the quality of their releases I'll revisit Ubuntu.
I ceased using Ubuntu 2-3 weeks after the arrival ov 8.04.1 but that update really did not solve any of my issues - some of them causing frustration amongst senior developers as well by the look of some threads in Launchpad.
Any form of production/development process needs consolidation periods. If Ubuntu believes that by some miracle this does not apply to them it explains a lot.
Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse/OpenSuse both suffered setbacks that triggered consolidation. The benefits are materialising. Gentoo and Fedora still suffers and their return depends on how well their organisations are handling consolidation. I'm optimistic as far as Fedora concerned - but Gentoo - sadly - sinks.
Ubuntu deserves tons of credit for forcing the other distros to improve their installationprocedures and so on. They are important in terms of huge publicity for GNU/Linux. My concern is that unless they actually DO their QA / consolidation they may turn into less of an asset and more of a liability. Hype can be fantastic, but eventually it ends like everything else.
Meanwhile I will continue to recommend Mandriva One 2009 KDE 4.x to people new to Linux or with "basic" needs.
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