____/ BearItAll on Monday 22 October 2007 09:19 : \____
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:02:19 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft matters less every 6 months
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Which leads me back to my headline. Edubuntu (and the various incarnations
>> | of Ubuntu) are very good right now. Microsoft may bring us “Patch
>> | Tuesday,” but Canonical brings us a significantly upgraded operating
>> | system every 6 months. Many other major Linux developers follow a similar
>> | schedule. If the improvements between versions are immediately noticeable,
>> | imagine what a couple more generations will bring us. What will Edubuntu
>> | 8.10 look like and how much better will it be? For that matter, how will
>> | SUSE Linux and their Kiwi implementation of LTSP look (along with the
>> | promise of fully-functional library and student information system
>> | software out of the box in the coming months)? RedHat/Fedora aren’t
>> | exactly far behind either, to say nothing of the countless options
>> | represented by other distributions.
>> `----
>>
>> http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1280
>>
>
> It is worth mentioning here that not all of us agree with the idea of
> 'significant upgrades every six months'.
>
> It gives the impression of an unsettled distro. If you get Ubuntu today,
> six months later do the upgrade, another 6 months another major upgrade,
> then what was it that you loaded today? Was it just a crappy distro that
> was desperately waiting for the next two major upgrades?
>
> The truth is that what the other 99% of distros see as minor updates that
> can be fed out as and when they are ready, Ubuntu are using as a reason
> for a major upgrade. I know I'm not the only one that sees this as a
> weakness on Ubuntu's part and a strength on the part of the other 99% of
> distros. We aint selling chocolate bars here, we don't need a 6 monthly
> advertising campaign pretending we have a new improved Mars bar.
>From what I can gather (and read in a few sites), the upgrade isn't worth the
trouble or time. It can be painless, but there's not enough added value. The
next version (LTS) is probably worth it though.
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