Unity and 11.04 (I know -- yawn -- another opinion)

[Darcy Casselman]

Probably should touch on this as well...

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, George Standish
<george.standish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stability?  How can you honestly say you find Ubuntu "stable" with radical
> changes to the UI [I'm not referring to stability in terms of uptime here,
> which is also an issue with Ubuntu as of late]?

I didn't say that, Mark did.

Unity is 1.0 software, at the end of a six-month development cycle.
I'm surprised it works as well as it does.  I use it every day.  It
crashes maybe once a week (I'm starting to think it might actually be
Flash, actually).  That's bad.  But I don't know if there's a better
way to do it.

My advice to people for a while has been, "if you need a stable,
production system, use the LTS."  And probably wait until the .1
release before you upgrade.  I think I'm going to start pushing this
idea harder.  I really like new shiny things every six months, but if
you just want to get your work done, the LTS is the best platform to
do it on.

Unity will be in an LTS in 12.04, in a year.  By then, it will have
had 18 months of solid development work behind it.  I think it needs
the shakedown of being the default desktop in order to work out the
problems.  The Oneiric cycle will be mostly evolution based on bug
reports and user testing.  The P cycle will probably be hardening and
stabilization.  If you still find Unity unacceptable then, then I'd
suggest that would probably be the best time to find a different
distribution.

Darcy.