tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post4411206306020408286..comments2024-02-27T03:14:00.412-06:00Comments on From the Canyon Edge: When was the last time your operating system released EARLY?Dustin Kirklandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12464590128908584782noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-26753754249043620742010-05-16T09:04:11.341-05:002010-05-16T09:04:11.341-05:00I'm shocked to see your criticism of Debian an...I'm shocked to see your criticism of Debian and Fedora and claiming that they could learn a lesson from Canonical.<br /><br />Quote : "But Ubuntu, I contend, has pioneered something special in world of software development processes. "<br /><br />I'd agree with this, Canonical has done something very different, the model at Canonical is fundamentally different to Debian and Fedora. Canonical is mainly around packaging and polish and not around actual development. If I look at the list of new features in 10.04 how many of those come from Canonical? While there's certainly a lot of desktop polish that's put into a release you're missing the *real* work of writing the code.<br /><br />Criticising Debian and Fedora is just biting the hand that feeds you.<br /><br />There was a great example right at the end of the 10.04 release cycle, a critical issue came up with ext4 in lucid.<br /><br />https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/543617/comments/20<br /><br />Quoting from Ted Ts'o<br />"Ubuntu needs to learn that it can't rely on upstream<br />developers to jump through flaming hoops on short notice before a LTS<br />release deadline as a cost-saving mechanism to avoid hiring their own senior kernel engineers"<br /><br />What was the response from Canonical's engineers? File a bug in fedora!<br /><br />https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588930<br /><br />I only get upset with Canonical's model when I hear them taking credit for others work and throwing this kind of FUD around.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-69136679633800653752010-05-15T21:44:14.889-05:002010-05-15T21:44:14.889-05:00lulzlulzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3822757291061444396.post-30350310868279255252010-05-15T19:07:53.142-05:002010-05-15T19:07:53.142-05:00Yet the other side to that is releasing ready or n...Yet the other side to that is releasing ready or not. 10.04 seemed like a rushed job on my end. Thing were pushed that I could live without - me menu - and things like the software center can't install software. Until I put Mint 9rc on I could not log off without locking the screen first. I can't think of anything 10.04 gave me over 9.10. Everything unique to 10.04 I have removed or don't use. I do hope 10.10.10 will be more than a branding gimmick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com