| dscassel | Woo! | 12:41 |
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| azend | That email dscassel forwarded out about an hour ago is dreadful | 19:38 |
| azend | It basically says, "We don't think our software releases are generally good enough for new users to be able to handle so please only give them LTSes" | 19:40 |
| azend | Every LTS I've ever run has been buggier than a regular release | 19:40 |
| bregma | well, one of the recent decisions that came out of UDS was that the non-LTS releases were not intended to be targeted for non-tech-savvy users | 19:48 |
| bregma | most tech-savvy users who are willing to risk using an in-development (non-LTS) version should already know how to download and image and write it to a USB stick anyway | 19:50 |
| azend | perhaps but then it follows the same logic as Arch Linux does | 20:07 |
| azend | Plus, I thought one of the new things in the Ubuntu Development Cycle was a push to make each dev build stable | 20:09 |
| azend | To shorten the span between builds and to perform continuous integration testing | 20:10 |
| IdleOne | The non-lts version have always been a "test ground" for new tech | 20:20 |
| IdleOne | maybe not officially, but that is how I have seen them. | 20:20 |
| IdleOne | IMHO cutting cds/dvds for LoCo teams down to LTS only is a financial decision. | 20:21 |
| IdleOne | same with the virtual UDS. To be honest I can't really blame Canonical but it does make me sad a little. | 20:22 |
| azend | yeah that is very true | 20:25 |
| azend | the cost of shipping those discs out must have been ridiculously expensive | 20:25 |
| azend | I do miss the days of ship-it for everyone though | 20:25 |
| azend | txwikinger2: nice job. | 20:45 |
| bregma | the interval between dev builds is now on the order of 24 hours | 21:23 |
| bregma | I don't think the cost of pressing and shipping DVDs was significant | 21:24 |
| bregma | I think it's more likely this is a part of the conspiracy to switch to rolling releases | 21:24 |
| dscassel | I'm not particularly upset to see the CDs go. | 22:09 |
| dscassel | I still have a box of 12.10s I don't know what to do with. | 22:09 |
| dscassel | And they cost me ~$25 in brokerage fees every six months. | 22:09 |
| dscassel | (admittedly better than the $40 it used to be) | 22:09 |
| dscassel | And the most common response I get when handing out CDs is "who installs from CD anymore?" | 22:11 |
| dscassel | followed closely by "Do you have 64bit?" | 22:11 |
| dscassel | Which probably means I'm targetting the wrong people, but hey. | 22:12 |
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