The problem ubuntu/canonical needs to address

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 09:22 +1100, arif tuhin wrote:
> The things i want from ubuntu, is please slow down the release cycle.
> a production environment can not upgrade in every 6 months. And also
> fix the online upgrade. i've been using ubuntu from 7.04. but never
> had a upgrade without issues. Debian has the most impressive online
> upgrade process. I have old box which was originally running on debian
> 4.0. Its running squeeze now. never had a upgrade problem. i use this
> box as home router/firewall/print server. and debian 6.0 has a memory
> footprint of 190 MB. I dont know aside from RED Hat and downstream ,
> which other full blown gnome distro has this kind of memory footprint.
> Also if ubuntu sticks with LTS model, then provide a safe way to
> upgrade from LTS to another LTS. And find a suitable stable functional
> desktop, Add things incrementally over this. It dont have to be gnome,
> kde. Even you have to detouch from upstream do it. Its very important.
> I love ubuntu and i really want another successful commercial linux
> stack.

In a stable environment, you should be using the stable LTS releases,
and upgrading from one LTS release to the next. When running an LTS
release, Update Manager will offer a smooth transition.

Marc.