Mark Shuttleworth Proposes Delaying next Ubuntu

Beuno writes "Mark Shuttleworth has proposed on the ubuntu-art mailing list to postpone the 'Dapper Drake' release by 6 weeks. He lays out the reasons pretty clearly: the delay should make the release a more user-friendly distro. He has also called up a community meeting in April 14th on IRC for community input. Is it really worth delaying the release for more then a month just to polish it out a little bit?" Commentary on this also available from the Tectonic site.

Ubuntu is Debian, Debian is Ubuntu...

[petteri_666]

OMG, Ubuntu is closing on Debian.

Real reason for the delay...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, Ubuntu is based on Debian right?

It seems that now they are also copying release schedules (with delays) from Debian projects :)

Re:YES!

[Dunbal]

At least by your logic, Duke nuke'm forever will be a really nice game...

      It had better be nice, considering we will have all of eternity to play it. After all it will be released after we're dead, right? You have to believe in DNF, man. If you don't believe you'll never get to play...

Re:Question? Answer.

[Frumious Wombat]

True, but only if we're discussing "technical polish" (i.e. show-stopping bugs, major visual glitches), versus "Debian Polish" (If it isn't perfect in the eyes of the last Vax user, we aren't releasing it). So far, they've got the clean and easy to use down pat, so they should take some extra care to make sure that's being maintained.

Re:User friendly?

[greginnj]

Your arrogance seems to be masking either a bad childhood, or inability to find love .

... thus speaks the AC at 5:50 PM on a Saturday night...

Re:Not just polish...

[njh]

Wouldn't Polish come under the category of Localisation?

Re:Great

[MattFlower]

If your urine is that color, you might want to see a doctor -- or at least drink more fluids. :)

Hell yes Hold the release.

[AgNO3]

Why waste all the bandwidth twice? Really? If they release on schedule then release a major patch that soon that everyone will apply. Why waste the bandwidth. I thought /.ers where all about things like saving resources of all kinds?

Re:What does Ubuntu offer that Debian doesn't?

[Minwee]

Well, more naked people [ucc.asn.au] for one.

Holy Crap!

[HangingChad]

The stockholders are going to revolt!

Delay in Debian Derived Distro??

[doublem]

I'm Shocked, shocked I tell you that a distro based on, and dependent upon, Debian packages would choose to focus on some kind of abstract "usability" or "stability" issue over fast and frequent updates!

Where's the bleeding edge code? Where's the "It compiled this morning let's push it out" mentality that's so common with Debian based Distros??

I'm astounded and saddened. Microsoft has updates coming out weekly. It can't be good for Ubuntu if it loses the "update war" with Microsoft. If you lose the update war, everything else is down hill from there.

Re:Great

[ion_]

If your urine is that color, you might want to see a doctor -- or at least drink more fluids. :)

Thanks for your concern, but it's okay, it's because i'm Finnish. The color of our urine is a result of a long, nationwide gene manipulation experiment with the ultimate goal: urine that glows in the dark.

Ubuntu shows its roots

[stinky wizzleteats]

I think Ubuntu is just trying to silence critics that say that they've run off and abandoned Debian. I think that delaying the release date is a move to get back to the distro's roots.

Re:Not just polish...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't Polish come under the category of Localisation?
That's why they aren't Russian to Finnish it. It takes time to Sweden a distribution and there's Norway they are going to German any last-minute Belgium whistles. The users may be Hungary to get their on it, but the developers simply have to Czech their work. If you prefer having it now over having it good, then either Greece the wheels with some cash or Yugoslavia self, you Turkey.

As for those of you who hate puns, i'm sure this Herzegovina it again so soon after the parent post.

Re:Why the personality injection?

[From A Far Away Land]

"It's pretty embarrassing to see tech-oriented sites act like teenage girls fawning over their latest pop singer pin-ups."

Hey, don't dis the fawning teenage girls. It was those type of people that made the Beatles more popular than Jesus to some people. We could only be so lucky to have thousands of screaming teenage girls promoting Linux use at home.

Re:Well, looking at Vista

[2sheds]

If anyone was ever holding their breath for Vista, they asphyxiated a long time ago...

Re:"Linux for human beings"

[gnarlin]

over here in emerge-world-ville.

Hello neighbor. How long have you lived in Gentoo GNU/Linux EmergeWorldVille? Have you tried the funny hats? Nice weather we're havin'. I'ma rebuildin' ma' house today. How 'bout you? By the way, don't tease the cow 'mkey?
Also, don't min' the inaproriate remarks from the city folk who passed by. Just because we like the extra chimneys, the horizontal X-windows 'n the constant rebuildin'. Just keep on doin' what makes 'ya happy, an' let the rest take care of it self. Thats what my gran' pappy used ta' say, although he lived in SlackwareVille. Poor chap.

Re:User friendly?

[Anonymous Coward]

The way GRUB could have been written is that when it returns an error, it spits control back to whatever would load in the absence of GRUB having been installed.

That would be the bootloader, unfortunatly there can be only one.

Re:Hell yes Hold the release.

[Anonymous Coward]

"I thought /.ers where all about things like saving resources of all kinds?"

Yes, they never post unless they have something vital to say. ;-)