Comment 103 for bug 1

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towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

> Posted by Alan Tam at 2006-06-01 04:52:58 UTC

First time I got such a flame in launchpad :confused:

My intent was not to spam, but but to add my observations to the discussion btw "Posted by Todd Lindner at 2006-05-31 14:47:00 UTC"
and "Posted by biffster at 2006-05-31 23:05:11 UTC"

Sorry for any inconvenience. As for

> After dapper is released, changes can go to dapper-updates.

afaik, releases don't get bug fixes ( http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu )

hmmm, so in addition to my (and others') previous suggestions of pre-installing ubuntu to sold computers and better driver support, microsoft's share may be hurt as well if ubuntu starts shipping bug fixes just like the security fixes are shipped as updates. But, would this render "releases" obsolete somehow? I'm not sure?

well, this was my favorite thing during the Dapper development cycle: when you do dist-upgrades during development, you saw bugs (that you weren't even aware of) fixed...