Dapper to be delayed 6 weeks...

[Frank Arnold]

I have to agree with Derek here.
I have run many linux distrubutions through numerous updates
And never had a problem saving my data in /home. If a major change
like that is going to be made then the install prograam should have
an option to create /home and give enough space for various users
who may be heavy downloaders.
Frank



On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 07:34 -0600, mitchthompson at satx.rr.com wrote:
> Why would you have to do that?
> 
> You DO have /home on its own partition, neh?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Frank Arnold <franka at svpal.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 0:39 am
> Subject: Re: Dapper to be delayed 6 weeks...
> To: james at grayonline.id.au, Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-
> users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> > Very good.
> > However, I hope that thiss time we will be able to upgrade from 
> > the CD
> > or somehow, raather that wwipingh aall our saved daaata in /home
> > Frank Arnold
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:18 +1100, James Gray wrote:
> > > From a ZDnet article:
> > > http://tinyurl.com/m8v4n
> > > 
> > > "New versions of Ubuntu Linux have been released at a steady six-
> > month 
> > > cadence, but project founder Mark Shuttleworth is considering a 
> > six-week 
> > > delay to improve the reliability of an important new version.
> > > 
> > > The next version, called Dapper Drake, is due in April. It's the 
> > first version 
> > > that will have longer-term support commitments -- three years 
> > for the desktop 
> > > computer version and five years for servers, compared to 18 
> > months for the 
> > > current 5.10 'Breezy Badger version. 
> > > 
> > > Getting those features right is important, Shuttleworth said in 
> > an e-mail on 
> > > Friday. 'We will live with Dapper for five years -- so let's 
> > give it a few 
> > > extra weeks now so that it can be a real asset to the Ubuntu 
> > project for the 
> > > full duration of its lifespan,' Shuttleworth said."
> > > 
> > > Discuss at will, but don't shoot the messenger :P
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > James
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