Upgrades sometimes flawed

[Alfred]

Hi:

As I sort of started all this, I think I'm getting the know how, of why
this happens. Everyone has a different Computer set-up. A generic Kernel
comes out, it does not cover everything, so on some systems it works
fine, on others it Breaks it, if there are up dates, I just didn't know
that to well - the why of it! I gave a post with an Idea for having
different Kernels for older hardware or newer hardware, so that new
releases are not the problem they are, with things requiring people to
throw away Hardware that still works. Someone sent me a post saying that
I should post that to:? Trouble was I have a bad Flu and had a fever, so
that email got lost in the Blob of 512 or so. I looked for it, but just
remember there was a link, to an Ubuntu Wish list for future
developments, something like that.

I'll do it when the Fever and Flu abate a bit!

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bowling <jbinpg at shaw.ca>
Reply-To: Jack Bowling <jbinpg at shaw.ca>, The Canadian Ubuntu Users
Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrades sometimes flawed
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:22:08 -0800
Mailer: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Eric Cyr wrote:
> hunh....good to know
> 
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Eric Cyr <1ballistic1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Don't think I've ever used gksudo with gedit....always worked fine for me
> >
> > I only learned of the difference recently:
> >
> >   http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo
> >

gksudo is an alias to gksu which is the actual executable.

Re. the "upgrades break things" thread: unfortunately true. But Corey is
right. Canonical is bound by its 6-month release policy so it must get
something out the door on a regular basis. This will inevitably mean that
large changes to various underpinnings (think pulseaudio) will necessarily
mean breakage to some systems. This is just something we have to live with.
Canonical uses the Debian repos as a base but does not espouse their
release policy (or non-release policy as the case may be).

Jack