On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +0000, Bruce Beardall wrote: > I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't > really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4 > but I think this leads to an interesting question: > > If we're to advocate Linux [and as far as this list is concerned, Ubuntu] > should we be concentrating our advocacy on the LTS release? It's all too > easy for anyone on this list to get carried away with the latest and > greatest but the vast majority of those we're trying to introduce Linux to > are used to the years between each Windows release. Should we be > concentrating on introducing them to a release which is intended to be > around for a number of years and expected to have a certain level of > stability and accessibility?
As the last couple of releases have had a bumpy start I've been putting LTS versions, currently 8.04.1 Ubuntu on new installs for people recently. I think I'll stick with the 8.04.1 Ubuntu disc for a while yet. This does ask the question of why the latest releases have had a bumpy start, is the new features cut off coming too late? is it not being tested on a wide enough variety of hardware? Or is it something else? Everything seems to be patched quite quickly and a .1 release seems to follow shortly that solves most of the release day problems. Should we be advising people to wait a week, or even a month before upgrading to a new version of Ubuntu? -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Deflect the sonar slot
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