Ji all, On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Jason White wrote:
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Hear, hear. For example, ifupdown 0.7 alpha is apparently in 11.10 so that they can squash all its bugs before the 12.04 LTS release -- but if you're on 11.10, that's just tough.
http://netsplit.com/2011/09/08/new-ubuntu-release-process/ gives a diagnosis of the problem and proposes (controversial, naturally) solutions.
An interesting read. But given that Ubuntu is a _distribution_ it is more complicated than that. There is a Linux release cyle, one from Debian, the Ubuntu one and the many things that come with the distro. I found Ubuntu attractive as a "desktop friendly Debian based distribution". Now it is "Debain based" + a lot of stuff I do not like. But to a certain extend I have this problem distribution independent, as a Gnome user I am frustrated with the path it has taken. Unity is "just a different way" of dumbing down the user. Take away features "and make it easy" - well, that's Windows, making the easy things easy and the othewrs very hard. Now it comes to a point where I cannoyt even put a command as an icon in a launcher, with arguments as "rdesktop -g 1024x768 windowsbox". I have to dig deep behind the scene and the enlightened Gnome comitee comes out with statements: "We do not want the user to do that, we concentrate on a desktop that just works out of the box". Throw in some deliberate Linuxisms to make it hard for other Unix developers to port, and you have a perfect "works for me, don't care about others" attitude - well, that's the death sentence for an open source project. Hurray, the next Chasm is coming. Somehow it seems to be too difficult to have a long-term stable acceptable Unix desktop development, and to be honest, a lot of work is forgotten and reinvented again and again. For a moment I am KDE user but at the end I may be happy with a very basic window manager and 9menu. At least that works as expected without too many surprises, since 1994;-) Regards Peter