I have to agree with Derek. With due respect to all the techs who do the hard work of keeping Ubuntu (and especially Kubuntu in my case) so great, I find that, as technical folks, we sometimes get overly focused on the technical side and forget about the larger world in which that exists. Sometimes the technically correct solution is not the right solution in the real world, at least not at first.
Because of all the issues with Karmic, this should have been anticipated and accounted for in Lucid. By this I mean that clear documentation, fixes and workarounds should have been provided - if the problem could not be accounted for silently in code. This problem is a huge hassle for users who aren't up to speed on the technical side of connecting to the internet. Those who are may look down on those who are not, but that's no way to run an operating system. Derek wrote: > This is where pragmatism comes in. > We have absolutely no control over those resolvers, and even if we had any > influence whatsoever with those who did, corporate networks are very slow to > change. Ubuntu is the outsider. The Windows machines work. Your solution > is not a pragmatic one. > > So, while being "pure" is good, I thought Ubuntu stayed out of such > things. > > That's why Ubuntu offers easy integration of binary drivers for ATI and > nVidia, why Ubuntu has a restricted-extras for convenient meta. > > Simply because IPv6 is *better* doesn't mean you should sacrifice > adoption for the ideal. > > Using AI_ADDRCONFIG is simple enough, and as noted browsers like Firefox > and Chrome have adopted that. > > What would be nice would be a simple package that forces it across the > board, simply as an option for broken networks. > -- Tai Sines "Share your strengths, not your weaknesses." -- Yogi Bhajan -- [regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417757 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
