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

[James Freer]

To me a Beta version is for testing and thus should be done on a spare
machine. As far as release versions go Ubuntu seem to 'cut it fine'. I
only install a main version a couple of months late after any further
problems have been ironed out.

james

On 16 April 2011 02:47, simpleLinux <2fzweb at gmail.com> wrote:
> think it's the repo. I'm downloading apps AT A LOVELY 3 KBPS on a 10 Mbps
> broadband... theehee.. But I didn't expect the BETA will work the same as
> releases because it's there to be tested by developers, so they can overcome
> problems, just like you are facing.
> Cheers :)
> Fariz Luqman
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Mister IT Guru <misteritguru at gmx.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 09:58 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>> > Hi Basil,
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> >
>> > Indeed it isn't a laughing matter. It's an issue that may bite lots of
>> > other people too. The community spirited thing to do would be to let
>> > the developers know about this issue, and the best way to do that is
>> > file a bug, see link above. I'll also point the Ubiquity developer at
>> > this thread to see if there's anything he can learn from it.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Al.
>> >
>>
>> You are a better man than me Al! I fear I would have said - It's
>> LABELLED BETA for good reason!! This was a very good answer!
>>
>> Also, Basil keep some old hardware around for beta testing, I got a few
>> junk rigs, none cost more than £80, and I also got spare partitions on
>> my high end stuff so that I can test bleeding edge. You only need about
>> 10G for a full clean install.
>>
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