On 11 November 2011 23:18, John Arbash Meinel <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > >>> Computers are replaced as frequently as refrigerators by people who don't >>> care how quickly it loads a page or makes ice: when it stops turning on. >> >> Those people are probably not upgrading their refrigerator firmware >> all that often either. They may not want a major new OS release. >> They might install an update/backport of a particular app. >> >> There is a group of people who want the latest-and-greatest software >> on old or small hardware, but they're necessarily the crowd you're >> describing here. > > I think you mean 'not necessarily'.
Yes, it was just a typo. > I agree, though I know we dealt with a > lot of this in our 'bzr python-compatibility' discussions. In that > particular case it was "we don't want to upgrade the OS, or even the system > libraries/python version, but we do want to upgrade a given application". > Which is a different level than "we don't want to upgrade our hardware, but > we do want to upgrade all of the OS and applications." > > Certainly it is a bit different when one upgrade is $$ and the other is > free. > > Still, it seems an open question for how to handle users that want the > latest-and-greatest X, but don't want the latest-and-greatest Y, even though > X depends on Y. Right, that's why I think many of those people are better served by updating whatever particular apps they care about. That's why we provide current-stable and current-beta bzr ppas going back to quite old OS releases: telling them to upgrade the whole thing won't fly. Few of those apps are are not going to need or even notice a newer kernel. Upgrading the kernel and X on old hardware that's already running a supported OS release is generally a risk with little reward. m -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
