On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/6/10 Mallikarjun <[email protected]>: >> >> This is surely a bad news, if not to all, but to some... I think >> Ubuntu or rather any Open Source OS should think about making 100% >> users happy, and not 99%... > > I don't think it is as bad news as you are claiming. Ubuntu 10.04 is > an LTS and hence it will be supported with bug fixes for 3 years. So > even those who have very old hardware have a choice of running it for > next three years. They will miss new features but that is not > necessarily bad.
You have a valid point... > No OS, open source or otherwise, can make 100% users happy. Because no > matter what, they always find something to complain about. > Open source is about freedom to choose. And that freedom is also valid > for distribution makers. They have the right to decide what is best in > long run from maintenance point of view. For example. Sparc port of > Ubuntu, which is community maintained, will be decommissioned during > Maverick cycle. I meant, making current ubuntu users happy > >> M$ made similar attempt in Vista and they failed, but that was much >> bigger change than what ubuntu has made. So I kind of having mixed >> reactions to Ubuntu these days... > > As you have already said Vista was much bigger change. Vista was not > even capable of running on the systems in existence when it was > release. Also the so called 'Vista Capable' systems also were not well > equipped for Vista's intensive memory/processor usage. > >> Looking at recent buzz around Ubuntu, I am try phase out to some other OS... > > Debian is a good choice. Also you can try Fedora. I am considering Debian and Gentoo > > > Onkar > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
