Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread patrick
Dear madam, sir, The fact that I'm using Ubuntu since version 6.06 is only a detail. But where is Ubuntu going today? I'm willing to beg to the programmers: please test your software!! Try to listen to your users!! It's nice to have the latest technology inside a distribution but what do I

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 17.11.2009 um 12:19 schrieb patrick: Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality software instead of buggy software like it is now !! I had some thoughts on this as well and came to the

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Shentino
Personally, I was ecstatic to try out Kernel Mode Setting. I was very happy with it...until I found out that it absolutely butchered the VGA console. Finding out that vgacon was not supported broke my heart. However, these decisions seem to have been made by the graphics guys up at

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Derek Broughton
patrick wrote: Dear madam, sir, I wonder about the wisdom of even trying to respond to an email that starts that way... Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality software instead of buggy

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Joao Pinto
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Am 17.11.2009 um 12:19 schrieb patrick: Give a distribution the time to mature, listen to your big chief, even when it's for only time only: 1 distribution a year will bring quality software instead of buggy software

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Christopher Lees
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 22:24 +, patrick wrote: Dear madam, sir, The fact that I'm using Ubuntu since version 6.06 is only a detail. But where is Ubuntu going today? I'm willing to beg to the programmers: please test your software!! They do test their software, but the fact is that