by tuxsax » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:01 pm
I started to feel this change in Cannonical's aim about a year ago, and yes, the beginning was really "ubuntu" but I guess their success blinded them and they've forgot what "ubuntu" means. Their slogan says it "Linux for human beings" taken from the word ubuntu which means humanity. Very nice ideals behind the project, so why forgetting this beautiful principals and start acting like a Profit Corporate? we already hav etow competitors in this field, let them kick each other, stay aside, keep out of it, make what you know best, a great linux distro, and why so many versions? where are they running to?
I mean, I spent 5 years with the same WinXP, all I did was reinstall from time to time, add/remove software as needed, applied patches and fixes, service packs. But I had the same version for 5 years!
I'd be very happy if I had a great version of Linux every year maximum, but I want this version to be totally maintained, not half of the developers start immediately working on the next release. Relax, take 6 months to let the version run, fix the bugs that pops out, add some features, patches, etc, and just then start working on a new version, you don't make it to the dead line? then knock off the dead line thing, it will get released when it's ready, I'm sure everyone is very keen to see a new version of any OS, but if you give them the options to get a new OS full of new goodies, or an OS that is robust and stable, I think we all will prefer stability and bug free OS rather than just "nice and full of bugs, err features" OS. Am I wrong?
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