This made an interesting read. Linked blogs too. May explain some of the new features in Ubuntu 11.04. Unity. <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/12/2329233/The-Full-Story-Behind-the-Canonical-vs-GNOME-Drama">http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/12/2329233/The-Full-Story-Behind-the-Canonical-vs-GNOME-Drama</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Lorin Ricker <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Lorin@rickernet.us">Lorin@rickernet.us</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hmmm... On further reflection/consideration of your remarks, David, I<br>
concede your points.  Mine were/are based only upon the frustration of<br>
seeing things-that-used-to-work break on new releases (this *never*<br>
happened with VMS!) ;-)<br>
<br>
And perhaps I don&#39;t (yet) understand the implicit linkage between<br>
Canonical&#39;s X.xx releases and the package distro/repositories -- Can&#39;t<br>
applications be upgraded without being so closely tied to the Ubuntu<br>
release?<br>
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On 06/06/2011 05:16 PM, David L. Willson wrote:<br>
&gt; My opinion would be &quot;Hell, no! Canonical/Ubuntu should not slow<br>
&gt; down.&quot;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; We ~have~ Ubuntu LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and it&#39;s many, many<br>
&gt; derivatives, and real Debian for mature and stable.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Interim releases, in Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, are ~supposed~ to<br>
&gt; be about trying out new things and seeing what happens!<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I don&#39;t personally like Unity, either, but that&#39;s not relevant, I<br>
&gt; think. Interim releases are about trying new things, stretching into<br>
&gt; new functional areas, and doing what&#39;s never been done before.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; That feature-stretching/testing/exploring ~should~ be done in Fedora<br>
&gt; 15 (GNOME 3.0) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity), or else where would it be?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; &lt;...&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Maybe Canonical should consider slowing down!?... -- Lorin<br>
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