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

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 06.02.2010 um 06:02 schrieb Luke Aaron: Maybe this is something other than an Ubuntu error? My system remembers keyboard layouts and network connections between boots. Also, I'm more inclined to think that VLC not playing smooth video is more likely a VLC problem than an Ubuntu one.

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

2010-02-06 Thread Luke Aaron
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 07:15:12 pm you wrote: Am 06.02.2010 um 06:02 schrieb Luke Aaron: Maybe this is something other than an Ubuntu error? My system remembers keyboard layouts and network connections between boots. Also, I'm more inclined to think that VLC not playing smooth video

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

2010-02-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:15 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: That exactly demonstates what I meant with not helpful at all. Markus, this is not the support list for random problems. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

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

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 06.02.2010 um 10:49 schrieb Luke Aaron: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 07:15:12 pm you wrote: Am 06.02.2010 um 06:02 schrieb Luke Aaron: Maybe this is something other than an Ubuntu error? My system remembers keyboard layouts and network connections between boots. Also, I'm more inclined to

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

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 06.02.2010 um 11:09 schrieb Mario Vukelic: On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:15 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: That exactly demonstates what I meant with not helpful at all. Markus, this is not the support list for random problems. I know. How else would I demonstrate the disastrous experience some

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

2010-02-05 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 05.02.2010 um 02:22 schrieb Ben Gamari: Excerpts from Brett Mahar's message of Thu Feb 04 20:00:19 -0500 2010: Is it still necessary to even have releases every 6 months? How many more new features/changes need to be made to the OS? It seems pretty well developed as-is. You are

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

2010-02-05 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2010/2/5 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: Perhaps he's talking about not to introduce a different photo viewer or instant messenger application every other release. I'm not sure what you mean with this in relation to Ben's message. That's the point why there are releases, and it doesn't

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 is

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

2010-02-05 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 05.02.2010 um 10:46 schrieb Siegfried-A. Gevatter: 2010/2/5 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: Perhaps he's talking about not to introduce a different photo viewer or instant messenger application every other release. I'm not sure what you mean with this in relation to Ben's message.

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

2010-02-05 Thread John Moser
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 05.02.2010 um 10:46 schrieb Siegfried-A. Gevatter: Apparently, the bug reporting and fixing (and packaging?) mechanism is so complex only few developers can keep up with it. Out of the ten bugs I have current, just a

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

2010-02-05 Thread Daniel Hollocher
Just in case you haven't seen some of the previous conversation on this topic, Mark Shuttleworth has talked about rolling releases verse time based releases here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/tag/cadence He makes some compelling arguments for time based releases. There should be a

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

2010-02-05 Thread Luke Aaron
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:59:07 pm Markus Hitter wrote: And no, Ubuntu with it's applications is nowhere near the stability of [...] Windows XP. You are kidding, right? No, I'm not kidding. Currently, Ubuntu fails to recognize the keyboard layout and the network connection between boots;

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

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

2010-02-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Excerpts from Brett Mahar's message of Thu Feb 04 20:00:19 -0500 2010: Is it still necessary to even have releases every 6 months? How many more new features/changes need to be made to the OS? It seems pretty well developed as-is. You are kidding, right? It amazes me that someone would say

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

2010-02-03 Thread Aitor Pazos
El 03/02/10 13:00, ubuntu-devel-discuss-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com escribió: On Saturday 16 January 2010 01:07:34 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Have you ever tried running development release from day 1? I do it in VM and in no way it is usable as everyday desktop. Going a bit OT here,