Ubuntu = The Best Distro In The World -- For No One!

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Monday 14 August 2006 07:24, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> Ubuntu should walk the road of Fedora Core. Trust the developers of
> various packages in bug-fixing, stop backporting and use the latest
> version.

Actually, I'm one of the folks pushing them to backport.  
Enterprise use of any OS or application requires both bug-fixes and stable 
releases...  One thing Caldera got right for business was not surprising you 
with a new release for each update.  Software feature-changes can cause 
significant heartache when they occur during routine maintenanace releases...  
For instance, I actually get away with auto-patching on most my systems.  If 
I came in one morning and the behavior of an application had significantly 
changed literally overnight, I'd be pretty po-ed.  Do that to me a few times 
and I'd sour on the distro overall.

That is why they backport.  It allows for us to get new releases of the 
software before the next release of the distro, but it's not shoved down as 
standard updates.  It's a "best of both worlds" move.

$0x02
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