10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[chris]

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 08:59 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:30 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 May 2010 19:20:03 +0800
> > Chan Chung Hang Christopher<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
> >
> >> That LTS badge is meaningless if it just means we shall ensure
> >> security fixes for the next x years.
> >>
> > It isn't meaningless.  It just has a meaning that people don't expect
> > and /doesn't/ have the meaning they /do/ expect.  Nowhere does it claim
> > to be bugless or stable.
> >
> 
> 
> Come right up! We be walking in the paths of the proven and glorious and 
> successful Microsoft! This be Linux for the masses just like Windows is 
> for the masses!
> 
I assume that this was tongue in check.  :-)

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> 
> If you cannot be bothered to ensure that it is free of bugs causing 
> major problems be it data loss or usability, then I am not interested. 

> We don't claim bugless or stability. You call that an excuse?
> 

I have to agree with you, with one provisio. I have used Ubuntu since
its first releases, and indeed some of my clients are still using 6.04
with no issues.
8.04 never gave me an issue, but since then, their "must" release cycle
has simply meant things have consistently gone down hill.

I find Debian Lenny is stable bug free and does every thing I want.
Also PCLinux os, which is an rpm based distro.

I don't know how we get the point across to Shuttleworth and co, that
what the bulk of users; ie  not ubber geeks, require, is stable sound
software that performs as it should.  Having to spend three months
triaging a system that is faulty to make it stable is not an option for
most.

The other thing that is bugging the ^&*(*&^ out of my client base is
that fact that Ubuntu dropped support for dial up.
A significant number of my clients use dial up.

This is very easy to set up in Debian, and Pc linux os, where as under
Ubuntu you need access to the internet to download the files needed to
set up dial up.  How can you do that with out internet access?
Frankly these frustrations are forcing me to move to another distro.

Cheers the kiwi