Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Apr 2009 16:16 UTC, submitted by Extend
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Canonical has announced the final release of Ubuntu 9.04; also announced were the releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix, but of course also Kubuntu 9.04, and Xubuntu 9.04.
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RE: More installation problems
by aaronb on Sun 26th Apr 2009 17:12 UTC in reply to "More installation problems"
aaronb
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2005-07-06

I think its about getting some perspective. I'm not trying to defend Ubuntu as the same may be true for many operating systems:

I was reading the Ubuntu forum thread on installations and upgrades, though.

The problems outweigh the positive upgrades and clean installations. I'd compare it to previous releases, but I can't find the threads.

It would seem logical that more people would use a support forum to get issues resolved than make threads to report each time something goes well.

Here is a good place to start if you want to lookup problems that others are having: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty

On a side note, I was thinking about all those who'd like Apple to put Mac OS X out there for anyone to use. If the developers familiar with thousands of configurations of x86 hardware can't do a seamless release, how would Apple?

I think this is an ongoing battle for most operating systems that IMHO can only be fixed using open source drivers or releasing documentation that would allow others to write drivers.

The latter would be cheaper for manufactures as the community would do a lot of the work. And the former would allow distributions (Including Windows) submit patches if they wanted.

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bousozoku Member since:
2006-01-23

I think its about getting some perspective. I'm not trying to defend Ubuntu as the same may be true for many operating systems:

It would seem logical that more people would use a support forum to get issues resolved than make threads to report each time something goes well.

Here is a good place to start if you want to lookup problems that others are having: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty
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Thanks!

Well, I've been participating in these Ubuntu-sponsored threads for releases since 7.04 and people seem to be voting, even if they don't comment.

I'm just thankful that my installation problems have been lighter than some but then, I don't customise much.

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