Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

[Norm]

OK Dave,

I know exactly where you're coming from and it's my sentiment entirely. What I'm 
asking is  could the virtualization improvements for example, be added to the 
LTS as a patch or upgrade, rather than have to wait 'till the next LTS?

I have a client who would love to dump Windows, but unfortunately runs some 
custom enterprise software which is Windows centric. The irony is that it's a 
Windows build of a very old Unix (green screen!) app! And no, the developer 
isn't interested in doing a Linux build of the GUI. The expertise has long gone.

Enjoy your day




Norm McMillan
Mildura, Australia.
The Wintersun City

Dave Hall wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:05 +1100, Norm wrote:
>> You know,
>>
>> This may sound a little like heresy, but is a new release every 6 months 
>> sustainable? Or even necessary? Is it just me or is each new release becoming 
>> just a little more buggy?
>>
>> It just seems like they're coming out of a sausage factory with the casings not 
>> quite tied off.  I keep going back to Hardy for a "good experience"
>>
>> Perhaps an "update pack" every six months and stick with the current LTS 
>> schedule for mainstream releases?
> 
> I see the non LTS releases as developer snapshot builds.  There are some
> occasions where you will run them in production, like I am currently
> doing with Karmic for the virtualisation improvements.
> 
> At the same time 80% of the boxes I have deployed in production
> environments (desktops and servers) run LTS releases.  Why? because I
> want it to be solid and don't want to have to upgrade every 6 months.  
> 
> The only machine which is regularly running alphas/betas/rc/just
> released versions of ubuntu is my primary machine - my laptop.  It has
> only completely died once - corrupted cryptroot on a karmic alpha
> +updates. Why?  because if something is seriously busted I want to know
> about it well before the version goes gold and also I like shiny stuff.
> 
> I do think that ubuntu and canonical need to review their marketing
> strategy for non LTS releases.  I think that there is too much emphasis
> on promoting them to Jo/e Average user, where most of them would be
> better off on an LTS release.  Can you imagine that chaos in the retail
> IT sector if MS released a new version of Windows every 6 (or even 12)
> months?  
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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