Jordan Erickson wrote: > Patrick Rady wrote: > > *snip* >> With Ubuntu, there is a certain pressure to upgrade- if you want your >> users to have the latest versions of, say, OpenOffice. You need to >> upgrade (in my case because of weird bugs with print drivers we need >> to use) because they are so conservative with backports, but then you >> must endure all of the regressions. Also, Feisty and Gutsy-packaged >> OpenOffice suffered from nasty crashers that were specific to the >> Ubuntu packages. So you must go through hoops to install the Sun >> versions, which don't integrate quite as nicely. > BAM. You hit the nail on the head, I think. Ubuntu's backporting policy, > *especially* in regards to LTS versions, is absolutely horrible. What is > the benefit of NOT backporting bug fixes? It's hard to stay motivated to > make things work when new LTS versions such as Hardy come out, you find > bugs that are really critical to your environment, and the first thing > you hear is "It'll be fixed in Intrepid." Huh?? Same thing happened with > the last LTS version. I was forced to upgrade to a non-LTS version when > it came out, to fix bugs in things like Evince and OpenOffice. It's the > same cycle all over again.
I too have felt abandoned when using Ubuntu's LTS versions. What you're looking for is very similar to what you get when you run Debian Testing. I think you should give it a try and see what you think. -Rob ******************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
