[wellylug] Critical Review of Karmic Koala

[Sam Vilain]

Jeff Hunt wrote:
> Another gem I 've just discovered from the world of Ubuntu is the usb
> startup disk creator. I've been teling anyone who would listen that
> this is wonderful. In a few minutes you can either be using any
> computer perfectly safely as an Ubuntu computer and then return it to
> its owner the way it was, or you can create and use a bootable usb to
> spread Ubuntu across the world. Alas not now.
> On Karmic it not only doesn't create the bootable usb you want but
> makes the usb unmountable on a working system. It can be recovered but
> you have to know how.
> My worry is how this sort of thing can happen. This is not some
> obscure conflict with unusual equipment or situations, it is a menu
> item which has worked well in the past. Does no one go through the
> menus and commands of Ubunutu releases and actually check they do
> something?
>   

That menu option worked fine for me on my Karmic box. Why not search
launchpad for your fault - there's a menu option for reporting bugs - if
you've not used launchpad no wonder you think that nobody tests
anything! You'll see there lots of bug reports from the many thousands
of people who try the beta releases and then report the bugs they find,
and the many people who use releases and report faults, sometimes fixes
making their way into updates and hopefully the next release.

It can be frustrating when things break for you but the thing to do is
to search for the bug in the bugtracker, not lament the uselessness of
it all..

Sam