Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:54 PM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> DOCTYPE valid rantml
> <rant>
> Good product, fast release cycle work fine for several releases then:
>   NetworkManager PPTP plugin won't connect to PPTP server without a days
> forum trolling and bug work-a-rounds.
>   GIMP 2.6 can't dictate paper size correctly from application (4x6 photo
> card). Have to set printer config itself to be actual size.
>   DVD's won't play - try regionset and all the css.sh special sauce and
> nothing (same hardware worked fine under 8.04)
>
> The above aren't very esoteric applications. But Ubuntu 8.10 seems to have
> failed in testing and the rush to meet the release deadline.
> </rant>

Also, kickstart support is 100% broken.  Quality has never been job 1
for Ubuntu.  This is just more of the same downward slide.  Mark
Shuttlesworth is smoking some good stuff if he thinks that a distro
with completely broken kickstart support is ready for any enterprise
environment.



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