Looking back at this thread, the issue seems completely misunderstood by
Ubuntu representatives.

Maybe to understand the debate, it should be made clear that this is the
straw that broke the camel's back!

Someone hereupper complain about regressions every 6 months... the most
annoying and not quirkable maybe the wifi: In a world where more laptops
are now shipped than desktops, do you think this is a minor issue? As
well as constant changes in acpi/power management that break suspend
since... Dapper! No, it's not.

For wifi, since ipw replacement by iwl, Intel boards (so widely shipped
in centrino based laptops) are subject to regressions since 2 years (and
latest LTS, still not reliable):  Yesterday I tried the lucid dailly
build ISO (probably what will be the b1): My 3945 was at 60% strenght,
limited to the worst modulation sheme (that limit wifi g BW to 1Mb/s!),
3 meters from AP... That's worse than hardy...

More surprising, I'm now trying alternatives: One of them caught my
attention, PCLinuxOS. Same iwl driver, but full strenght and BW, a beta
that works like a charm from live USB with nvidia proprietary drivers
loaded: Never seen that before.

I don't know if I'll keep hardy till next year support end... and switch
to Debian 6.0 that should be there meantime... or try something that is
still more on the edge, but with users in mind (because sticky to the
basis, as ubuntu at the beginning: Good HW support, acceptable
reliability, clean interface without social networking stupidity/Apple
bad copy. Hassle free rolling release: Another user centric feature
delayed by ubuntu by 6 months... every 6 months!)... but upgrading to
lucid is no more in my plans even if a full reinstall bothers me.

The confusion between what democraty should trigger (general long term
distribution orientation, usability priorities...) and what meritocraty
should apply to in ubuntu  process (kernel/driver expertise, applicative
sw test and integration)... is really worth reading!

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