Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly feeling more like an Alpha

[David C. Curtis]

On 12-02-09 05:34 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 23:47, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> 12.04 Alpha has (for me) been amazingly stable right since Alpha 1
>> release.  Till today.
>> Has anyone else running 12.04 Alpha found that it has suddenly gone
>> awry with a round of updates?  It starts ok but then the GUI just
>> seems to grind to a halt.  The clock in the top panel stops and
>> nothing much works.  I have to resort dropping back to a terminal and
>> restarting.  Strangely I can't find anything in the logs to indicate
>> what the problem is to see if there is a relevant bug report.  I tried
>> the previous kernel but no different.
>> I am not complaining as it is an Alpha after all.
>> Hopefully it will all start working again with some more updates.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> 12.04 _is_ an Alpha. I think that you meant to post on the dev list!

As long as I've been on this list (fall of '07) there's been no issue 
with discussing alpha. I for one welcome it. The OP could do better in 
#ubuntu+1 on Freenode though. As big show stopper bugs/goof-ups usually 
get reported within the hour, and is the best interface between devs and 
users that I know of.