Previewing Dapper And Edgy

Frank Clarkson writes to mention a ZDNet article about the upcoming release of 'Dapper Drake', Ubuntu Linux. They also give a mini-preview of Eft. From the article: "'I'm promising to impose (almost ;-) ) zero from-the-top requirements for Edgy, this release is entirely up the to development team to envision and implement,' he wrote. 'Almost everything that lands in Edgy will be driven from the development team, who get to play with whatever new technologies they fancy along the way. So that should give us a nice big bump in infrastructure and bling.'"

Comments

Open Sources

[PakProtector]

Proving why Developers shouldn't try to do Marketing's Job.

VIA C3 Bug

[sugar pubes]

I sure hope that they've fixed the VIA C3 bug that was present on the last distribution, 'Breezy Badger'. I tried installing it on an 800MHz C3 system and it was unstable to the point of being unusable. I can't remember the exact details, something about the C3 missing one of the Pentium instructions.

Re:VIA C3 Bug

[sirius sam]

Sounds to me like it's VIA's C3 bug, not Ubuntu's bug. Maybe you should get a distro compiled for i586 or even i386 instead of for i686, as a workaround?

OMG

[bogie]

Enough with the Ubutu Dapper stories already.

Tr0ll

[Anonymous Coward]

tosSers, went out arseholes at Walnut you join today!

Nerdy Nutcases

[onlyjoking]

Honestly, with titles like "Debian Woody", "Breezy Badger", "Dapper Drake" etc. is it any wonder the rest of the world thinks the Linux crowd are a bunch of Nerdy Nutcases?

Previewing what, now?

[sunwolf]

I always think the articles having to do with Ubuntu builds are LSD-induced when I first see them.

Re:Cutting

[Doc Ruby]

My brain makes me amazing - thanks for asking.

This is the first time Ubuntu is trying the "let the developers decide everything" model. What makes you so obtuse that you can't tell that this new attempt is a step backwards for their strategy?

My "off the cuff development model" is to put users' requirements first, before developers'. I never claimed to invent that "model", just to favor it. Who the hell are you?

I am a developer, with decades of success forming my attitude. Now you should bow down and worship me, the way you worship the Ubuntu developers.

Re:Cutting

[Doc Ruby]

I wasn't criticizing developers in my original post. But I am certainly criticizing you, now that you've crawled out from under your rock.

You are the poster child for developers who can't communicate. Who posts obnoxious hyperbole and strawman arguments. Using my post as a random excuse to insult users. Thanks for proving my point. Now go back to your flatfood cube and stop bothering the humans - they might not use the software you're cranking out when they realize what might be lurking behind it. You're giving us developers who can communicate with users a bad name.