Over at ubuntuforums.org, hundreds of people are reporting problems installing Dapper because of this bug - which was first reported on 2 January 2006 - five months before release. First the report was rejected altogether; then it was confirmed, but, judging from the comments above, there seems to have been a conscious decision not to fix it.
My guess is that this decision will make more people give up on Ubuntu than anything else could have done.
Just a general comment:
Over at ubuntuforums.org, hundreds of people are reporting problems installing Dapper because of this bug - which was first reported on 2 January 2006 - five months before release. First the report was rejected altogether; then it was confirmed, but, judging from the comments above, there seems to have been a conscious decision not to fix it.
My guess is that this decision will make more people give up on Ubuntu than anything else could have done.