Ubuntu: Good and Bad. (Was: 13th December "Smack Down" Meeting)

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> FWIW I have been running Ubuntu 10.04 on 2 of my machines for... possibly
> years, I can't remember. No dramas. I think that the thing to do with
> Ubuntu
> is always wait at least 4 months after the new release comes out before
> trying it. By that time, most of the fixing and polishing will have been
> done.
>
> Then, if there is anything you want to try, add the PPA. And furthermore,
> just because there is a new release, doesn't mean you need to run it.
>
> I hope all the "its broken" folks filed bugs.
>

I think that's good advice. At one point, a new release of Ubuntu broke
the USB-Serial operation which our products require, and we had to do a
fair amount of triage with early adopters to solve that problem.

So, what is the 'PPA'?


-- 
Peter Hiscocks
Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto
http://www.syscompdesign.com
USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator
647-839-0325

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