On 04/05/12 07:59, Alan Pope wrote:
One point which came up was that 12.04 was very stable from very early on in the cycle. There were very few catastrophic breakages which led to a broken desktop (such as X version migrations or compiz/unity inconsistencies in packaging). It was (more often than not) possible to get to a working graphical desktop at any point in the 12.04 cycle.
It certainly was stable on the hardware I use at least.
We are adamant that we should keep that for 12.10. It should be possible to upgrade to 12.10 around the Alpha 1 stage and keep it as your main desktop through the entire cycle, knowing you'll be relatively safe to do so.
Thanks for taking the time to post a long reply and I hope your 'sprint' is a success.
I think I'll use the spare partition to put a self contained 10.04 on, add some files and create a mail profile in Evolution &c, then upgrade via the software update to 12.04, then await 12.04 Alpha 1 and see what crawls out from under the paving stones. I'll just keep on doing the routine updates as Alpha goes to Beta &c.
I'm mainly interested in where Unity and HUD are going, but I may as well do something that might throw up something useful.
@Piskie: I'll lurk on Ubuntu+1 to see what others find, confirm bugs &c Cheers -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
