Upgrades sometimes flawed

[Mr. C clark]

Would someone please explain why,
"Canonical is bound by its 6-month release"
Quantity over quality??
I don't understand?
Chris
bglug

> Subject: Re: Upgrades sometimes flawed
> From: alfred.s at nexicom.net
> To: jbinpg at shaw.ca; ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:38:31 -0500
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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