Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-05 Thread Brett Mahar
> well developed as-is. > >You are kidding, right? It amazes me that someone would say such a >thing. I can tell you right now that the competition (Apple, and, yes, >even Microsoft) do not have this attitude. While Ubuntu in its current >form is a great distribution, it is by no means perfect and

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-04 Thread Brett Mahar
Nowadays Ubuntu has to support 4 releases at a time (8.04,8.10,9.04 and 9.10) and as result of that some issues aren't solved as quickly as it could. Having a LTS (Desktop and Server) with periodical releases and a Ubuntu for human beans ;) could be interesting. Is it still necessary to even have

Re: Dual Core CPU not seen after an upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-28 Thread Brett Mahar
> After an upgrade of my dual core AMD 4050e machine to Karmic, the > second core is no longer seen (/proc/cpuinfo shows only one CPU). I > have never seen this issue with Jaunty. I recently bought an eMachines desktop with an Athlon X2 5050e dual core processor. I installed Ubuntu 64bit (9.10

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-01-15 Thread Brett Mahar
>At this point I > think Google's approach with ChromeOS is something interesting. There > are not different versions of ChromeOS. If you have ChromeOS installed > you will always have the latest software installed. I think google's approach is a terrible idea, as I hate the intrusivness of aut