[wellylug] Critical Review of Karmic Koala

[Roger Searle]

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7600/1.html

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> Terrible examples, contextually useless statistics... where to start?
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> Don't bother.
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> Regards,
> Wayne
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Unfortunately this is a good article - certainly reflects my own 
experience of Karmic upgrades or fresh installs.  And of Jaunty and 
Intrepid and Hardy and.....  Fortunate are those in the claimed 10% who 
have a flawless install, and I look forward to the release where I have 
zero issues to work through.  It is just so random as to which things, 
previously working, will now not.  And the fix for something on one 
machine will not necessarily be so for the same issue on another. 

Personally I can tolerate this, I guess as a fairly early adopter I have 
to, and remain a (k)ubuntu installer/supporter/user and look forward to 
seeing how the next release goes.  However I'm not prepared to hand out 
disks to friends or family and be confident of them having a good 
experience without being prepared to spend plenty of time resolving an 
unknown number of random issues.  I agree with the article, it's not a 
good look and the opportunity to be a 7-killer at some level is gone.  
Next time maybe.

Worth the read.

Cheers,
Roger