Edubuntu 7.10 - A Released Debacle and a Practice in Failure

[Alfred Nutile]

Thought I was the only one here.
I agree below, slower cycles.
I am using Feisty at work and a library since Gutsy seems like a wash.
(one is running 5 computers the other 4 on a LTSP setup)
Though I run it on my laptop.
Sometime I rather just go back to LTSP 4.2 but I was believing Edu would
take off with LTSP 5.
But it really seems like some of the core needs get ignored.
I agree too that it is partly my fault for not being more involved with
bug reports.  I will try and do better.

This effort may be way ahead of it's time. But with the focus on low
energy computers it could really find a place it the Green movement
going on.

Al

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 10:09 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 08:14 -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> > I am very disillusioned with Edubuntu, the leadership (or lack thereof) 
> > and the false claims of functionality.
> 
> I can't tell you how happy I am to see this post — and happy to see that
> somebody else sees it the way I do. I don't see your post as a troll
> (although it is certainly flamebait).
> 
> I have been trialling Edubuntu LTSP on-and-off for the last couple of
> years, and every experience has been nothing short of painful. It's been
> riddled with bugs, visual glitches, incomplete documentation, and is
> generally of inferior quality compared with the quality and polish of
> the Ubuntu desktop distribution.
> 
> I'm not saying it's the developers' fault that Edubuntu is like this.
> Obviously, it's the lack of contributors and bug testers (QA currently
> sucks) that is really hurting the project (so, if anything, it's my
> fault, as I should be contributing). My point is that what _really_ gets
> to me are the false claims that the project makes that the parent talks
> about.
> 
> If Edubuntu is "riddled with bugs, visual glitches, and is generally of
> inferior quality" (quoting myself here), then don't say "Thin client
> deployments offers clients a lower TCO (total cost of ownership),
> simpler installation and easier maintenance than typical IT
> deployments."
> 
> I think we need to see respins (a.l.a. 6.06.1) instead of turning a
> blind eye (ignorance is bliss), longer development cycles, and possibly
> even skipping shipping Edubuntu every other Ubuntu release to focus on
> quality.
> 
>