Linked by Hadrien Grasland on Sun 13th Feb 2011 18:56 UTC, submitted by Debjit
"According to the original release schedule, the final release of Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narhwal" on 28th April was to be preceded by a Release Candidate on 21st April. [However, said] Release Candidate has been scrapped and in its place, the Release Team has added a second beta on 14th April. The changes has been necessitated by the fact that 21st April is just before Easter and, so, many developers and testers would be unavailable during the time."
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RE: Canonical is slipping...
by stabbyjones on Sun 13th Feb 2011 22:11
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RE: Canonical is slipping...
by flanque on Sun 13th Feb 2011 23:22
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Depends on the hardware you got I guess, but for my laptop which carries an Intel GM whatever graphics card, that's definately true.
All I hear are excuses and I have to deal with crappy boot time options, etc just to start the darn thing up.
Slip in Fedora and it works straight away.
RE: Canonical is slipping...
by nt_jerkface on Mon 14th Feb 2011 00:43
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RE: Canonical is slipping...
by ozonehole on Mon 14th Feb 2011 02:24
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Now that Ubuntu is the undisputed king of distros (by some opinions anyway) am I the only one who notices how each new release slips just a little bit more in quality and polish?
I haven't noticed that at all. Indeed, 10.10 was the most stable and polished release I've seen yet. No crashes, freezes, configuration problems, noticeable bugs, or anything - not a hiccup.
With 11.04, the big issue is the Unity interface which is indeed a major change. I played with an alpha-2 live CD, but haven't installed it yet, so I haven't used it enough yet to decide if I like Unity or not. However, I currently run the Lubuntu desktop on 10.10, so Unity is of no great importance to me personally. If you're a Unity hater, all you've go to do is type...
sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
You've also got the option for xubuntu-desktop or kubuntu-desktop. You can even install Gnome as a desktop. So I think people are making too much out of this Unity-as-default issue. But if it's a big deal, there are always other distros.
To listen to all the bitter complaining, you'd think people were actually paying for their freely-downloaded Ubuntu CDs.
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RE[2]: Canonical is slipping...
by shotsman on Mon 14th Feb 2011 07:27
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If 10.10 is so brilliant:-
Why have a number of Ubuntu die hards I know gone back to the world of Stability that is Debian? Several of them had Dell & Lenovo laptops that didn't boot after grub2 was installed.
This Ubuntu fanboism does not affect me as I run Fedora or CentOS so my opinion is from a casual observer.
I think that Canonical try too hard to make things 'default' before they are really ready.
The Fedora team get a lot of flack for pulling stuff just prior to release but personally that is the right way to go. Be brave, stand up and say it ain't ready yet and pull that bit of functionality.
RE: Canonical is slipping...
by Soulbender on Mon 14th Feb 2011 09:19
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Now that Ubuntu is the undisputed king of distros (by some opinions anyway) am I the only one who notices how each new release slips just a little bit more in quality and polish?
I dunno, but Kubuntu gets better each release.
Apparently, Canonical thinks it's the Microsoft or Apple of the Linux world; it will give its users what it decides is best on its schedule and they'll either like it or be damned..
I'm pretty sure that an RC wouldnt change the state of Unity or Ubuntu's direction.
RE[2]: Canonical is slipping...
by steogede2 on Mon 14th Feb 2011 13:30
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I dunno, but Kubuntu gets better each release.
With the state of KDE4, it couldn't really get worse!!*
* [Dons flame proof underwear] That was just a joke, incase it is not obvious. I am sure someone was bound to say it, so it may as well be me. BTW, I am very happy KDE user and I am typing this on Kubuntu 10.10.
RE: Canonical is slipping...
by jbauer on Mon 14th Feb 2011 09:27
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Now that Ubuntu is the undisputed king of distros (by some opinions anyway) am I the only one who notices how each new release slips just a little bit more in quality and polish? Now they're skipping release candidates? Apparently, Canonical thinks it's the Microsoft or Apple of the Linux world; it will give its users what it decides is best on its schedule and they'll either like it or be damned. No thanks Canonical.
It's easy to be king when there's no one else even trying.
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Now that Ubuntu is the undisputed king of distros (by some opinions anyway) am I the only one who notices how each new release slips just a little bit more in quality and polish? Now they're skipping release candidates? Apparently, Canonical thinks it's the Microsoft or Apple of the Linux world; it will give its users what it decides is best on its schedule and they'll either like it or be damned. No thanks Canonical.