Comment 90 for bug 496093

@ Ricardo Salvetri: I would like to add my voice in saying "thank you" for your work on the kernel.

@Jeremy Foshee: From your comments, would I be correct for me to understand that you are one of the team who will make the final decision before Lucid goes gamma? FWIW: I am one of those Asus EEE user mentioned by Michal Pěnka. Intially, thought that the problem was merely with the WPA supplicant, or just the drivers ... and *only with Lucid*.

However, I also downloaded and tried other distros (as live CD's), such as: Mandriva, Easy Peasy, EEEbuntu, Knoppix, and even Fedora. The problem was / is consistent across all these distros.

Further investigation led me to this forum, and I felt some hope that the next release of ubuntu would be something 'for the masses'. Ubuntu has established justly-deserved reputation for being a very user-friendly distro.

As an 'end user' two things attracted me to Ubuntu:

1) The end of the 'dependencies nightmare' that invariably occurred with rpm distros, thanks to debian and apt / synaptic.

2) Ease of use: no beating my head against a wall to install drivers for peripherals. Everything "just works". The only 'hard work' for the end user is installation, and some basic configuration: internet, and personal preferences.

If the other distros' current betas 'go gold' with a _properly patched kernel_, it will look very bad for Canonical / Ubuntu.

I am no 'coder / programmer'. I confess that my desire to see Ubuntu's LUCID come out "looking good" is probably due to the fact that they are headquartered in Montreal ...so my enthusiasm for this distro is somewhat tainted with a bit of 'Canadian pride'.

IMVHO, it would preferable for Ubuntu to delay the release another few days ...or even a week, rather than have 'egg on their faces'.

... just my two canuck cents worth ...

respectfully...