[Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...

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On 1/30/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To make Ubuntu Edgy blow up in truly spectacular fashion:
>
> * Insert flash memory device of any sort on USB - with data already on it.
>
> * Erase said data - but don't empty trash.
>
> * Properly eject (unmount) USB drive.
>
> * Work normally.  For a while.  Until it starts running dead-dog-slow and
> you look in the trash and find 3,000+ items in there, randomly picked from
> your file system...
>
> And that's on top of a few crashes here and there.  It was the disk coming
> freakily unglued on me that made me start looking for something else in a
> tearing hurry...
>
> Folks: I *know* that neither Edgy or Feisty are long term support.  But
> Edgy
> was a mess from the get-go and you can bet the Ubuntu guys have figured
> that
> out.  I would call it a good bet they're going to worry more about
> stability
> in Feisty than they clearly didn't in Edgy.
>
> They will be aided by generally better code in Gnome, the kernel and lots
> more.  "Better ingredients make for better soup" and all that.  No
> guarantees of course but...I think they CAN get it right.  Whether they do
> or not, who knows...though the reports from people running Feisty Alpha
> are
> positive by and large...
>
> Jim
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