Ubuntu Needs To Monitor Consistency - Not Appearance
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I took a pretty big risk with this title, as it makes it sound like I am against Ubuntu having any kind of attractive features whatsoever from a cosmetic perspective. In reality, I would love to see Ubuntu evolve into something more visually attractive, but I hardly see this as a focus at this point.
What I see as critical, is continued work in making sure each release avoids regressions like the plague. While going from 8.04 to 8.10 did pretty well, I still believe that there are indicators that future releases will behold a number of totally avoidable regressions that could have been avoided if more time had gone into making sure they were avoided at all costs. And yes, this means not releasing something as ready before its time.
To be fair, given a few months after a release is out, most of any regressions are soon ironed out, but those wide-eyed newbies who have no idea that this is part of a normal cycle are already long gone despite not having the entire Ubuntu picture, much less one that involves other distros. With any luck, the release of Ubuntu 9.04. will be a happy event as hopefully, the show stopping bugs that can turn people off with a given release, will be avoided. Remember, any Ubuntu release right out of the gate, is likely going to still have bugs big time. Stick with the working release for a few months, you’ll thank me later.
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Debianero Rumbero
April 11th, 2009
at 11:09am
It’d be better a one year polished& ironed release cycle than this buggy six months release.
Precisely that’s why I’m sticking with Debian.
Arran McDonald
April 11th, 2009
at 2:07pm
iv ran all the beta copies of 9.04 and up untill alpha 5 things where bad now it works 100% no problems and with ext4 it seems to boot so much faster this is so much better
Arran McDonald
April 11th, 2009
at 2:26pm
Debianero Rumbero if you want less bugs with ubuntu stick with only .04 distros and things seem to work much better than the .10 distros
bigbrovar
April 11th, 2009
at 2:32pm
One thing easily comes to mind. Pulse Audio that needs to be given high priority. Intrepid and hardy were a mess
Matt Hartley
April 11th, 2009
at 3:41pm
Would have agreed with you had I used it in older distros, but in Intrepid, assuming you have padevchooser installed (critical), PulseAudio is freaking easy, actually. This said, I do wish padevchooser was pre-installed as this would save sooooo many people from becoming frustrated and confused. ;)
I can move audio sources in real time from one device to another, stream my speaker output via Flash and Ustream, there is nothing I can’t do, really, on my setup. Where are you having problems?
Matt Hartley
April 11th, 2009
at 3:42pm
Arran: Cool, let’s hope things work out well for the upcoming release. :)
Matt Hartley
April 11th, 2009
at 3:43pm
Just as an fyi, if anyone is having confusion about how to use PulseAudio, what else you ought to install for the best benefit, comment here, I will do up a screen captured video tute for ya. :)
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April 13th, 2009
at 1:15am
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