Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:10 +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote: 
> What I want to add to the debate is that this is a "BETA" version. We
> are talking about a product not yet finished. Not yet ready for
> mission-critical use.
> 
> I understand Basil being upset. But in a way, he "asked for it". When
> one downloads a beta, one does so expecting to get into trouble, and to
> report these bugs. And complaining strongly that a beta is buggy is,
> well, to say the least, not what is expected of a user of a beta.
> 
> That kind of complaining *MIGHT* be justified *ONLY* once the product is
> final... :)

Basil has been around enough to know about Beta's. Now that he's got
some good information, he can make better choices. It just didn't act as
he thought it would/should. Stuff is changing! Heck, I still miss line
numbered BASIC. But, if the installer can check for the fastest mirror,
which there is an option for with RPM, if I recall correctly, it would
be better. I've seen some less than modem speeds recently during
updates. Me, I decided after doing the Fedora thing for some time, that
I don't make a good beta tester. I'm getting too long in the tooth. But,
Basil's thing wasn't that it was a Beta, but that he couldn't get
installed. At that point, it appears more an Alpha than a Beta. :) Ric


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