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Stephan Rose
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:55:17 -0700, Alpha wrote:
> On Jul 13, 8:57 am, Alias <a...@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote:
>> Mike wrote:
>> > In article <lZmdncHHjvqqAQrbnZ2dnUVZ8vidn...@giganews.com>,
>> > Stephan Rose <nos...@spammer.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Here is the release policy:
>>
>> >> LTS Releases are supported for 3 years (5 years server). All other releases
>> >> have 1 year support. When the current LTS expires, a new release is made
>> >> available with LTS support.
>>
>> >> What's so terribly difficult to understand about this?
>>
>> > Nothing actually. What it means is Ubuntu is not something to run a
>> > business on. 3 years?!?! 1 year?!?! Wow, and people complain
>> > about the "MS upgrade treadmill"! MS is still supporting Windows 2000
>> > after 8 years and XP after 6 years.
>>
>> > No business wants OS upgrades forced on them every 3 years in order to
>> > stay supported. If MS did that you would be screaming "monopoly"!
>>
>> > Mike
>>
>> Ubuntu upgrades are totally painless. If you're a business, you back up
>> your data. Installing a new version of Ubuntu is a nice walk in the park
>> compared to Windows which could be likened to taking a walk in South
>> Central LA at 3AM on a Sunday morning.
>>
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> Except that, on 10 PCs, it has FAILED to install every time.
Well if the LiveCD booted and you made it to the graphical installer then
honestly, you as a user, were doing something wrong if you failed to
install it. I don't mean this in a bad way so please don't take offense.
Not my intention. Just my honest observation because if a LiveCD boots
then you already know that the OS will work on the hardware. Unlike the
windows installers, the LiveCD actually really run the OS just like it
would run off the hard drive. So to "install" itself, the only thing it
has left to do is copy its files to a partition you designate to install
it to and update / add the boot manager as necessary.
If the LiveCD does not boot, then there indeed is an issue with the OS
itself and there is some hardware compatibility problem.
I've successfully installed it on everything ranging on today's latest
hardware to a several year old laptop with under 256mb ram and some weird
proprietary and non-standard LCD hardware.
The only install I've ever had a problem with was that laptop install as
not only is it just barely at spec, but it also has really oddball display
hardware. Not an install I'd recommend for a beginner.
All my other installs though quite honestly went perfectly smoothly, both
on desktops and newer laptops.
I'm not saying there can't be install issues. There can be. But they are
generally unlikely if the LiveCD boots successfully, and they are even
less likely to occur on 10 different machines. Just statistically
speaking, at least one should work.
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Stephan
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> On Jul 13, 8:57 am, Alias <a...@maskedandanonymous.info> wrote:
>> Mike wrote:
>> > In article <lZmdncHHjvqqAQrbnZ2dnUVZ8vidn...@giganews.com>,
>> > Stephan Rose <nos...@spammer.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Here is the release policy:
>>
>> >> LTS Releases are supported for 3 years (5 years server). All other releases
>> >> have 1 year support. When the current LTS expires, a new release is made
>> >> available with LTS support.
>>
>> >> What's so terribly difficult to understand about this?
>>
>> > Nothing actually. What it means is Ubuntu is not something to run a
>> > business on. 3 years?!?! 1 year?!?! Wow, and people complain
>> > about the "MS upgrade treadmill"! MS is still supporting Windows 2000
>> > after 8 years and XP after 6 years.
>>
>> > No business wants OS upgrades forced on them every 3 years in order to
>> > stay supported. If MS did that you would be screaming "monopoly"!
>>
>> > Mike
>>
>> Ubuntu upgrades are totally painless. If you're a business, you back up
>> your data. Installing a new version of Ubuntu is a nice walk in the park
>> compared to Windows which could be likened to taking a walk in South
>> Central LA at 3AM on a Sunday morning.
>>
>> Alias- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Except that, on 10 PCs, it has FAILED to install every time.
Well if the LiveCD booted and you made it to the graphical installer then
honestly, you as a user, were doing something wrong if you failed to
install it. I don't mean this in a bad way so please don't take offense.
Not my intention. Just my honest observation because if a LiveCD boots
then you already know that the OS will work on the hardware. Unlike the
windows installers, the LiveCD actually really run the OS just like it
would run off the hard drive. So to "install" itself, the only thing it
has left to do is copy its files to a partition you designate to install
it to and update / add the boot manager as necessary.
If the LiveCD does not boot, then there indeed is an issue with the OS
itself and there is some hardware compatibility problem.
I've successfully installed it on everything ranging on today's latest
hardware to a several year old laptop with under 256mb ram and some weird
proprietary and non-standard LCD hardware.
The only install I've ever had a problem with was that laptop install as
not only is it just barely at spec, but it also has really oddball display
hardware. Not an install I'd recommend for a beginner.
All my other installs though quite honestly went perfectly smoothly, both
on desktops and newer laptops.
I'm not saying there can't be install issues. There can be. But they are
generally unlikely if the LiveCD boots successfully, and they are even
less likely to occur on 10 different machines. Just statistically
speaking, at least one should work.
--
Stephan
2003 Yamaha R6
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