pfarrell;537586 Wrote: > mudlark wrote: > > I am well able to cope with kubuntu. It's not my experience I am > trying > > to make a point about. You are defending the indefensible. A bug > hasn't > > been fixed properly.......I tried three times to get the situation > > resolved. What do I have to do? Just go away and make less noise? > > I'm not trying to defend anything, and I'm not trying to be negative > towards you. But I don't at all understand what you expect. > > Have you seen the same issue with Debian? Is it just a Kubuntu issue? > or > more general? > > I run Debian for my servers, such as the one running SqueezeBoxServer. > > Support is expensive, and nearly all companies allocate support money > in > direct proportion with the number of users using that flavor. So most > companies do something like 86% Windows, 14% OS-X, and a percent or so > for all else. > > Kubuntu is a subset of Ubuntu, so its way under a portion of that one > percent. Debian is where all the real work is done, and where all the > testing is done. So I suggest you try it using Debian as part of the > problem isolation. > > IMHO, the reality is that supporting assorted Linux distros is so far > down the priority list that it is not going to happen except by luck. > The Radio, which was released last Fall as a commercial product is > riddled with bugs. They have not been fixed because all of the > engineers > have been working on the Touch. Now that the Touch is out, I expect > that > they will be beating down the production bugs in the Touch, and then > get > to the bugs in the Radio. There are, of course, still bugs in the > Duet, > Boom, and even Transporter. > > I expect that community support is all you will get. By the time the > list is short enough, the Boom 2 and Touch 2 will be sucking all the > oxygen out of the air. > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
Bravo. P -- pski real stereo doesn't wake neighbors (it enrages them) . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77541 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
