Ubuntu 10.10: a meaningless release

Written By
SV
Sam Varghese
Sep 24, 2010

[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese
for this link. ]

“Over the last week, I’ve been playing around with the beta of
the forthcoming Ubuntu release – Maverick Meerkat or version 10.10
– which is scheduled to be officially unveiled on October 10. And I
have just one question to ask: why is it being released at all?

“What major changes are present to justify an upgrade? If all
that the new version has to show is incremental changes in version
numbers of major applications, why is there the need for so much
hoo-haa?

“Is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, guilty of becoming a
prisoner of its own hype, and unable to revert to some kind of
commonsenical schedule that would reflect the correct state of
affairs?”


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Sam Varghese

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