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Edgy Eft

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Edgy Eft (latest Ubuntu release) will be officially released October 26th. As of yet, you can still update to the "beta" release, but you're likely to run into some not-so-fun problems.

So, are you planning on updating? What does Edgy Eft plan to offer that would give you incentive to update?
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Nope, because I can't upgrade what I don't have installed. 😛
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ZOMG. =D

Do you think Ubuntu's idea of a new release every 6 months is a good idea?
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My OS of choice has been doing 6 month release cycles for about 10 years. I like relatively quick release cycles.
 
For the beta, sure, why not? Dapper beta was flawless for me and I'm an adventurer. I will definitely be upgrading to the latest official when it arrives. I will do it by a reinstall. I feel a dist-upgrade would leave too much residue.

BTW, the beta isn't out. It's in some early alpha knot release, which has actually been terribly buggy for me (judging from the LiveCD). It didn't even boot with my 7800GT in regular or safe graphics mode. 😉
 
i still fail to understand why anybody would use Ubuntu. It seems as complete rip off from other distros. IMO of course.
 
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
i still fail to understand why anybody would use Ubuntu. It seems as complete rip off from other distros. IMO of course.
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Aren't they all ripping off Yggdrasil and Slackware? 😛
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
i still fail to understand why anybody would use Ubuntu. It seems as complete rip off from other distros. IMO of course.
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Aren't they all ripping off Yggdrasil and Slackware? 😛
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You reminded me of this cool linux distribution time line. Its pretty neat. Just thought I'd randomly share..

edit: I never knew Suse forked from Slackware. I still don't like Slackware though. heh
 
Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
i still fail to understand why anybody would use Ubuntu. It seems as complete rip off from other distros. IMO of course.
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Aren't they all ripping off Yggdrasil and Slackware? 😛
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You reminded me of this cool linux distribution time line. Its pretty neat. Just thought I'd randomly share..
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It's like a mini-unix timeline. Of course, the unix timeline site seems to be down right now... 😛

edit: I never knew Suse forked from Slackware. I still don't like Slackware though. heh
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Slackware's too good for you. 😛

:beer::laugh:
 
I'll be updating, but I'll probably wait at least a few weeks after the final is out. With all the new application changes going on, I'll probably be doing a fresh install, but I may try a dist-upgrade first, just to see how it goes since I started with Dapper this will be my first chance to try out a dist-upgrade.
 
My last 'apt-get dist-upgrade' didn't go so well. I think I'll wait until they have a stable release and do a fresh install. 🙂
 
I'll upgrade when it becomes stable. NO reason to break my stuff if I dont have too.
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This is the only reason I don't want to run Ubuntu, I like getting constant updates in Debian sid and I've seen too many big problems with the Ubuntu betas for me to want to run them.
 
These linux updates are becoming madness. 1.0.1-6 update to 1.0.1-5 etc. In good ol' days software was release when it was ready.
 
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
These linux updates are becoming madness. 1.0.1-6 update to 1.0.1-5 etc. In good ol' days software was release when it was ready.
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"Release early, release often."
 
These linux updates are becoming madness. 1.0.1-6 update to 1.0.1-5 etc. In good ol' days software was release when it was ready.
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Lots of people want 6 month official releases, I can't really explain why but they do.
 
It is not about releases, but the endless set of updates for existing software. For example, I had to download cirac 500MB for SUSE 10.1 the other day - right after installation.
 
It is not about releases, but the endless set of updates for existing software. For example, I had to download cirac 500MB for SUSE 10.1 the other day - right after installation.
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Frequent updates are good and I don't really care about the bandwidth usage, but I can see how some people would like them to use binary deltas instead of full packages.
 
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