More on the ravings of the duck flight. The recent install of Dapper Drake flight 5 seems to be experiencing some turbulence. Mostly small instabilities in various applications, as well as a tendency to hang a little when using up most of the CPU.
However more interesting is not instability of a non-final edition of this marvelous OS 😉
Mark Shuttleworth recently proposed a 6 week delay of Dapper Drake. Mostly to get some features fully integrated and really polish up this release so it can stand out as awsome 😉
What would such a delay mean if its voted as the future. Should the version number still reamin 6.04 ? Should the next release still get 6 months dev time, or be cut by 2 months taken by dapper ? Personally i think that 2 months is acceptable as long as it’s a one time thing. Also 4 months dev cycle for next release wouldnt be bad if the focus was security, stablity and not alot of new features. This would make Dapper +1 even more polished and stable. And after that giving 6 months for new features 😉
But would the Ubuntu project thats become one of the most used distros in a short time suffer bad press from announcing a delay ? Personally i think not, if it’s a one time thing, and since montly Flight releaes would propably still be available thus making progress easy to follow. Also the current flight is as before written quite nice, and i really think that it would have been finished on time, but would rather wait and get more stable and polished release.
Finally i would like to announce that when i get the time i will be going back to using Breezy for the time being. Mostly because i just wanted to check out Dapper, and i really like it. But for now its not stable enough for me to trust with on my university work. I would prefer using Breezy for my project so i dont have any incidents 😀 But im soooo looking forward to Dapper as i think its gonna be a great release, if only the repos keep up with the release and dont make the Breezy “mistake”. Somehow i was dissapointed to not be able to repo install stuff like Azureus when i first switched to Breezy.
Enough ramblin… but if you are feeling like getting a look at the next nice OS check out Dapper, but if you really need everything stable and solid stick with Breezy untill at least Flight 6/final of Dapper 😀 😀
Fly dapper fly !!!