On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:27:22PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> I think the next release is supposed to be in April so you might
> > see if the wireless support has improved then.
>
> Ubuntu pushed the Dapper Drake release back by six weeks for
> additional soak time. That means late May or early June, not sure
> which.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/175272/
And so the delays in releases begin, showing that the spirit of Debian is
alive and well. Within a couple of years, Ubuntu will be at 1.5 year
release cycles. A couple more and they'll be at 3. Soon after that,
people will start to suggest that Ubunto simply shouldn't have releases
because unstable, despite being changed constantly, is still pretty much
okay. They will conveniently ignore the fact that one must actually get
the damned thing installed on your hardware first in their argument, and
the release will be too old to actually install on modern hardware.
Then some wealthy backer will step forward to fund a company to develop
something with the technical achievements of Ubuntu, but in a timely
manner. They will standardize their desktop on the latest XFCE, which by
then will be the most effective DE around, with Gnome being reduced to a
single button labelled "Do stuff" in 33 languages and KDE requiring that
you configure all of its settings using an engine taken from a voice
controlled PBX system that really only properly understands its
developers' native precise dialect of Engrish with more than 80%
reliability.
The new XFCE-based distribution will be hailed as a better Ubuntu than
Ubuntu, the Ubuntu faithful will shun it as a cheap knockoff, and the new
distribution will become the new darling of the Linux community. Then the
replacement for Ubuntu will gather large numbers of developers each
determined to make their own variant of the OS with their pet project or
framework as the centerpiece. The development of this new distribution
will slow, package complexity and quantity will swell, releases will begin
to be delayed, and the process will repeat.
The next derivative will be started by the fans of the fourth nearly
complete rewrite of Window Maker, which will have been (re)written finally
not as a prettier clone of NeXT, but rather a clean and intuitive design
based loosely upon the principles that made NeXT so wonderful, and the
large collection of companion software available for it...
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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