On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So, desktop is now to be 9 month support, LTS is to be LTS... Just waiting > on how we are going to release a 'release' once the testing and QA guys have > gotten our heads round it. Not here for me to blog, but the discussion of > just how we are going to have a 'release' is important, so please have a > think and get involved. > > Regards, > > Phill.
[...] > Regards, > > Phill. > > [0] > http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-18-21.01.moin.txt > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw I have the feeling that Canonical has not the size of Google, to be able to create many complex Free Software projects of its own. This is obvious from the Unity/Compiz case. Also, this is obvious from the fact, that each of the latest Ubuntu-family releases, needed a six month bug fix period, for most major bugs to be fixed. Personally I have been looking for Ubuntu-family replacements, as a possible option for the future. The distributions I have noted so far, are: 1.Rosa (also made by a company): http://www.rosalab.com 2. openSUSE 12.3 or later (also made by a company): http://www.opensuse.org >From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE: Acquisition by The Attachmate Group Novell was in turn acquired by The Attachmate Group on 27 April 2011. Under its new owner SUSE remained a separate company. ==> By June 2012 many former SUSE engineers which had been laid off during Novell's ownership had been brought back. I think OpenSUSE 12.3 is the first result of this. 3. Fuduntu (a very conservative and simple, partial rolling release): http://www.fuduntu.org 4. Chakra is nice, but it lacks a graphical package installer, and a graphical updater, so far): http://www.chakra-project.org I am still looking for more Ubuntu family-replacements. In any case, I hope I am wrong, and the Ubuntu family continue to be great. -- Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
