This $0.02 from a non-developer who tries to stay out of religious quarrels:
we all have a list of bugs which leave us dumbfounded that they have received no attention. My two favourites (all well represented on Launchpad) are: 1. strange circumstance had me installing a completely new 64-bit Kubuntu Lucid beta install the day after the beta was released; so clean that I had to create a brand-new home directory for the principal user (hint: I had suffered a recent catastrophic crash of the disk containing my (well backed-up) home directory). The 64bit KDE beta loads to a pure white screen with no trace that there is any running WM or DE. All one can do is back out to a virtual console (Ctl-Alt-[1-6]. I, for one, don't care for GNOME; thank God for LXDE. I have filed, IIRC, three distinct but related Launchpad bugs on this problem; 2. OpenOffice.org 3.2 sends certain print jobs to a /dev/null bit bucket and not to the printer. I am still trying to figure out what causes the phenomenon. It seems to involve documents which started life in another format. One weird example involves a document which started out as a .txt file. I have even had files which started life as .doc files, went through a full-scale "translation environment" (Wikipedia is your friend here) and which I subsequently reassembled in OOo. What can I do about the problem? Thank God I own a copy of Softmaker. By the way, I am a late-in-life student of translation and just received a tuition scholarship for having done well so far. I can't wait around forever to see if OOo gets fixed. I need to turn in work, and if Textmaker makes that possible, FOSS purity has to give way. Also reported on Launchpad. Bruce -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 Just when you think your software is idiot proof, somebody comes up with a better idiot Keyboard not found...Press any key to continue. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com> > To: Scott Beamer <geek...@angrykeyboarder.com> > Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 3:25:48 AM > Subject: Re: If Luicd ia a LTS...... > > Ok, I will bite - but why, is there some particular reasoning behind this? We > have a month. We are middle of beta testing and nothing seems to be delayed. > So why? Just curious, Peter. 2010/3/23 Scott Beamer < > ymailto="mailto:geek...@angrykeyboarder.com"; > href="mailto:geek...@angrykeyboarder.com";>geek...@angrykeyboarder.com>: > > Then I sgrongly urge a few exta betas and a delayed release > date. > > Just my $.02... > > > -- > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > > ymailto="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com"; > href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com";>Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss"; > target=_blank > >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > ymailto="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com"; > href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com";>Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify > settings or unsubscribe at: > href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss"; > target=_blank > >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
