[ale] Upgrading to 9.10 hosed my system

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 13:45, Michael B. Trausch <mbt at zest.trausch.us> wrote:
>> Personally, I think this release should have been delayed for a couple
>> of weeks to have an extended bug fixing period with some extreme focus
>> on polishing before the release.  That's just my 2¢ though.
> 
> Myself and others lobbied HARD for that on the #ubuntu+1 chan before
> release... but were consistently told that Ubuntu ships by a schedule
> and with not much concern for stability or fixing bugs.   I was
> totally annoyed by that, having met several of the Ubuntu developers
> this past summer I honestly thought they were in it for perfection...
> but I guess not.   The Ubuntu attitude seems to be everything is an
> upstream bug that they have no control over, or, it's a bug that
> doesn't affect 100% of the user base.     Couple that with all the new
> crap that is great for people who want a Windows desktop, or a
> Multiuser workstation, etc., and you basically have a distro that is
> no longer focused on just being a good single-user optimized
> laptop/netbook distro.  Thus my previous post about looking for a new
> distro to luv.


That is a disturbing position for them to take.  Sounds like my last 
experience with Fedora, 9, I think.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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