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Monthly Ubuntu Releases Proposed

Posted by samzenpus on from the lets-speed-it-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Scott James Remnant, the former Ubuntu Developer Manager at Canonical and current Ubuntu Technical Board leader, has proposed a new monthly release process for Ubuntu Linux. He acknowledges that with the six month releases there are features that end up landing way too soon, leaving them in a sour state for users. With his monthly proposal, Remnant hopes to relieve this by handling alpha, beta, and normal releases concurrently. It's unknown whether Canonical will accept the policy at this time."

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  1. Seriously? by DarkHelmet · · Score: 1, Funny

    They must be smoking the same crack cocaine that Mozilla is.

    Well, for what it's worth, free drugs may incentivize people to switch to using Linux on the desktop sooner.

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  2. Re:reinstall montly by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those names hardly inspire confidence for use in a production environment..

    Quite. If they were a respectable company they'd call their test rolling release something like "Windows Update with Genuine Advantage"

  3. The Last Straw by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 3, Funny

    THAT'S IT!!! I'm moving to Gentoo!

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