That guy Pinny Parlour over at those forums sounds like an asshole. Like he's going to give up Ubuntu as soon as he gets his browser working again. Christ, man, it's a bad update. When there's 6 every week, then you start looking at alternatives. A real man would ride it out, and perhaps even view it as a challenge. I guess you don't know how to accomplish anything from the commandline, do you, stud?
He's an asshole for comments like this:
I hate xserver xorg, it's a piece of utter crap.
But that is a BAD update! I know I click the update button as soon as it's available on the notification area, and I bet and I HOPE others do that too. I got the 10.3 update, but I didn't restart X until after the 10.4 update came out (I thought it was odd having two updates so fast).
For the human beings, that update is almost as bad as a MS update that'd break the Windows GUI, if you think about it (it's a much smaller scale (thankfully?), but the same end-user experience). Fixing it in less than a day wasn't so bad though, and neither was the community response (see the original post of
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=242252).
We have launched an investigation and formal quality process review to understand exactly how this happened and what corrective actions to take. We will provide further information from this review when it is available.
I think a 'dapper-testing' repository (not 'edgy') could work well, might propose it somewhere if I find where it'd fit in (which I can't), if I still feel the need.
I been so pissed off with Ubuntu recently anyhow, and w00t my Fedora Core 5 CD3 is burned, time to install that. I
think (but really, it's just so I don't wrongly accuse it) I can put the recent technical fuck-ups down to my drive which isn't in a nice state (gonna have to get used to piling on the backups), but I posted this to #ubuntu on freenode not long ago:
oh man.. reading stuff like http://www.ubuntu.com/news/opera9 "Opera is a perfect match for Ubuntu" is nearly making me sick.. According to http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy one of the philosophical ideals of Ubuntu is that (and this is /the main/ reason I installed dapper in the first place) "Every computer user should have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, share, change and improve their software for any purpose, without paying licensing fees". Making it easy to install Opera is one thing, but this.. especially when we already have Firefox.. christ.
Guess who'll be starting their own distro one day? Maybe I'll call it 'Doors' (as opposed to 'Windows') like a classmate told me I'd do when I was, like, 11 (she also said I'll become the next Bill Gates with it, but that can wait).
