Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Mar 2007 17:58 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.04 Beta and it comes packed with a whole host of excellent new features including the released GNOME 2.18, the 2.6.20 kernel and much more."
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2005-07-08
but beta software is unfinished work and shouldn't be thrown at the general public with so much fanfare. What ends up happening is people treat the beta like a general release, experience a ton of problems with it and then go sulking back to Windows with the misguided notion that Linux is flawed or substandard.
Thank you so much!! This is exactly my issue with beryl, these days. I've been on the beryl forums pretty much every day for the last two weeks, and so many posts are from someone trying linux for the first time, unable to get beryl doing what they saw it doing in a video on youtube. All this publicity of beta software does is damage linux, not help it.
Oh, and I'm simply dumbfounded by the number users who have a hard time getting beryl working on feisty, and don't understand that, being beta software running on a beta distribution, of course it's gonna break regularly. Then they get all pissy when you (politely) point out their stupidity and suggest that instead of whining about it not working, they open up a bug report.
Adam
Edited 2007-03-23 21:46