On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 03:31 +0100, Remco wrote: > Ouch, that's bad. Whether it's true or not doesn't even matter.
The Register is trying to drive visits up. It was bound to happen with increasing popularity, there is always something to be gained by shooting down last year's favorite. Nothing new here. The cases that are listed mean nothing at all without numbers and context. It will never be hard to find five upgrades going wrong when millions of people upgrade (and the Register and /. should remember this when spinning the next sensationalist Windows story, too). And quoting a poll on ubuntuforums -- pleeeaaase, ever heard of self-selection? I upgraded at alpha 5 without a hitch but I surely did not tell a poll about it. All in all they cite one (!) bug report in the article and this was already marked as won'tfix because it looks suspiciously like user error . "Sounds like you probably have a proprietary driver compiled against kernel version X, but have upgraded to kernel version Y. Because they are closed source, the driver has to be rebuilt for a given kernel version, which means you have to take care to match your kernel and video driver versions, else it'll break." Otherwise the Register quotes "Ubuntu forum member w00ly, who decried the lack of automation on encrypting his home partition". Decried, really? Well let's read on - 'w00ly wrote: "I certainly wish the encryption mounting process was more automated like everything else is!!"' Fair point, but hardly a catastrophy. And then we have a few cases of fallout of the usplash/xsplash & KMS transition, which currently indeed makes the boot look less polished, at least for users without Intel graphics. This is a shoddy, shoddy piece of journalism and whether Karmic sucks or is great, we won't learn about it from the Register, apparently. I trust the launchpad statistics and the general feeling of supporters in forums and mailing lists more, and as Derek mentioned recently, there is less noise on the user list than for other releases. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
