Ubuntu first time

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:05:11AM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I have trouble with Ubuntu and Fedora releases.  I guess I'm a
> trouble-magnet.  I haven't even tried Debian, so I cannot compare it.
> 
> Ubuntu's "cadence" isn't two phase, as far as I know.  So .04 and .10
> versions should have an equal chance of perfection.  Except for LTS
> versions.

Correct.

> The current LTS is 10.04; next is 12.04.  10.04 wasn't perfect out of
> the gate.  In fact, it isn't even perfect now.  But it is pretty solid
> (and a bit stale).  Stale and solid are correlated for most distros, I
> imagine.
> 
> Ubuntu LTS versions sometimes come out with even-more-dots versions
> which are fixed but not advanced, more or less.  Like 10.04.1.
> 
> My strategy for non-critical installations is to wait a couple of
> months for the dust to settle before using either a Fedora release or
> a Ubuntu release.
> 
> Solid		Current		Exciting
> =====		=======		========
> RHEL/CentOS	Fedora		Rawhide
> Ubuntu LTS	Ubuntu		beta / RC
> Debian Stable	Debian Unstable	Debian Testing (Sid?)

Did you swap unstable and testing?  Testing is wheezy (the next release).
Unstable is sid (always is).  Sid liked to break toys after all.

> I like the idea of Solid, but I often find it too stale for my taste.
> 
> I wish updated Live CD images were easy to come by.  I think Fedora
> lets you "respin" Live CDs, but I haven't looked at how much machinery
> you need.
> 
> I wonder if Live USB stick version can be updated by the normal update
> mechanisms of the distro.

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Len Sorensen
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