Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[North, Walter]

Good list.

Obese Ocelot  === sounds more like a MS release . . .

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Wall
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:46 PM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:16:54PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:54 PM, James McDonald
> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> > ... Ubuntu 8.10 seems to have failed in testing and the rush to meet the release deadline.
> 
> In my experience with Ubuntu (1+ yr, but now outdated) that practice
> was always the case.
> 
> <rant on>
> And, of course, the practice of dropping every imaginable POS untested
> package from Experimental into the opening round of the next release
> ...
> <rant off>

On that note: 

http://www.kurtwerks.com/blogwerks/archives/2008/11/29/ubuntu_release_names/

Kurt
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